Rights at Stake and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Two Special Issues of the Journal of Human Rights

Shareen Hertel, Catherine Buerger, Shareen Hertel, Catherine Buerger

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781032218250
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000841978
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery
• Index: Social Sciences

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life across the world, placing people at risk as our responses to it alter not only health and wellbeing but also governance, economies, social relations, and our interaction with the natural environment. This volume draws globally recognized human rights scholars and practitioners into dialogue over the costs and consequences of the pandemic. With insights and data from fields as diverse as medicine, anthropology, political science, social work, business, and law, these contributors help us make sense of the pandemic's ongoing effects and its potential impact on future systems and processes. Drawn from two special issues of The Journal of Human Rights—one published within eight months of the first lockdowns, the other published almost two years into the pandemic—this book offers one of the most comprehensive collections of such research available. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Politics, Sociology, Social Work, Economics, Anthropology, Social and Political Geography, and Public Policy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Part I Early views and analysis of the pandemic
• Centering rights-based theory and praxis
• Re-examining health
• Contesting power and control
• Part II Ongoing debates
• Windows of opportunity to worsen human rights
• Fighting COVID-19, maintain human rights: Challenges and tradeoffs
• Lessons learned for the future
• Index