The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life
eBook - ePub

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life

About this book

This book explores the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic is poised to be a permanent fixture in the modern world which in contemporary times will be thought of in terms of before and after the pandemic. It looks at how the pandemic has brought to the fore the question of the appropriate ethics, politics, and spirituality and highlights the present condition of humanity and the need to rethink alternative planetary futures. It argues that the pandemic has existential and epistemic implications for human life on planet Earth, and a post–COVID-19 future requires a fundamental transformation of the present economic, political, and social conditions.

Drawing on empirical case studies on the COVID-19 pandemic from Africa and beyond, contributions in this book challenge the reader to rethink alternative planetary futures. It will be a useful resource for students, scholars, and researchers of African studies, citizenship studies, global development, global politics, human geography, migration studies, development studies, international studies, international relations, and political science.

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Yes, you can access The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life by Inocent Moyo, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Inocent Moyo,Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & African Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. 1 The planetary impact of COVID-19
  8. 2 Reengaging power: state responses to COVID-19 and the provision of public goods in Canada and the United States of America
  9. 3 COVID-19 and the challenges of trauma, transformations, and deborderisation: ethics, politics, and spirituality and alternative planetary futures
  10. 4 The COVID-19 moment: exacerbation of narrow nationalisms and their toxicity to integration aspirations
  11. 5 COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitics of health, and security entanglement in West Africa
  12. 6 The conundrum of balancing between COVID-19 policing and human rights protection in South Africa: a responsibility to protect perspective (R2P)
  13. 7 A Trojan horse: critically exploring data as a colonial instrument during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa
  14. 8 Occupational health in the mining industry of South Africa and the COVID-19 pandemic
  15. 9 “On est pas de cobayes”: Congolese migrants and health transnationalism in the COVID-19 moment
  16. 10 “#Corona Jihad”: remanufacturing Islamophobic narratives during COVID-19 in contemporary India
  17. Index