Covid-19 in Africa: Governance and Containment
Springer Nature Switzerland
ISBN 978-3-031-36139-5
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2023
XXIII, 266 p. 14 illus..
In englischer Sprache
Umfang: 266 S.
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
ISBN: 978-3-031-36139-5
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Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Progress in Mathematics African Histories and Modernities
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Written amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this edited volume draws on the expertise of social scientists and humanities scholars to understand the several ramifications of Covid-19 in societies, politics, and the economies of Africa. The contributors examine measures, communicative practices, and experiences that have guided the (inter)action of governments, societies and citizens in this unpredictable moment. Covid-19 tested governments' disaster preparedness as well as exposed governments' attitudes towards the poor and vulnerable. In the same vein, it also tested the agency of the generality of the African populace in the face of containment measures and how these impacted on everyday social, cultural and economic practices of the ordinary peoples. In this vein, our concern is to understand the relationship between growing vulnerability on the one hand and ingenuity of agency on the other, and how both were embodied, narrated and discoursed by the African poor, university students, religious entities, and middle-classes, and those that bore the major brunt of the lockdowns.
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