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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Covid-19 and the Caribbean, Volume 1

The State, Economy and Health

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Editors:
  1. Sherma Roberts

    1. School for Graduate Studies and Research, The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown, Barbados

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  2. Halimah A. F. DeShong

    1. Institute for Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown, Barbados

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  3. Wendy C. Grenade

    1. Department of Humanities & Social Science, St. George’s University, St. George’s, Grenada

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  4. Dwayne Devonish

    1. The Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management, The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown, Barbados

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  • Examines the effect of COVID-19 on governance, the economy and health policy
  • Takes an intersectional approach, considering gender, race, and class when considering the impact of COVID-19
  • Serves as a companion to COVID-19 and the Caribbean, Volume Two: Society, Gender, Education & Technology

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xliv
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  2. State Responses and the COVID-19 Pandemic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Sherma Roberts, Dwayne Devonish, Wendy C. Grenade, Halimah A. F. DeShong
      Pages 3-11

    3. COVID-19 and Human (In)Security in the Caribbean: An Assessment of Grenada

      • Wendy C. Grenade
      Pages 13-38

    4. Navigating Motherhood and Work: Caribbean State Responses in a Global Health Crisis

      • Daniele Bobb
      Pages 39-56

    5. Revisiting Democracy in the Anglophone Caribbean in the Context of COVID-19 and Beyond

      • Sandra Ochieng’-Springer
      Pages 57-75

    6. Elite Authoritarianism Versus Individual Liberty: The Politics of COVID-19 Management in Barbados

      • Tennyson S. D. Joseph, Sonjé Greenidge
      Pages 77-100

    7. COVID-19 Pandemic: Mainstreaming Risk Assessment and Management

      • Wayne Charles-Soverall, Ken Hackshaw
      Pages 101-121

  3. Navigating COVID-19: Economic Development Issues in the Caribbean

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. COVID-19 and the Caribbean: Economic Perspectives

      • Kari Grenade, Zanna Barnard, Jason Cotton, Donna Kaidou-Jeffrey, Patricia Welsh
      Pages 125-147

    3. Social Insecurity: COVID-19, Unemployment Insurance, and the Case for Reform in the Eastern Caribbean

      • Dalano R. DaSouza
      Pages 149-175

    4. Managing COVID-19 in the French Caribbean: The Case of Martinique

      • Hélène Zamor
      Pages 177-194

    5. Using Monitoring and Evaluation and Evidence-Based Data to Build a More Resilient and Sustainable Caribbean Post-COVID-19

      • Nadini Persaud, Ruby Dagher
      Pages 195-215

  4. Tourism and Hospitality Perspectives on COVID-19

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Absorb, Adapt, or Transform? An Exploratory Analysis of Small Tourism Businesses’ Resilience Strategies During the Pandemic

      • Sherma Roberts
      Pages 219-248

    3. “Furloughed and Frustrated But I Am Fighting”: Women Hotel Workers and the Cost and Value of COVID-19

      • O’Neil Joseph
      Pages 249-266

    4. The Impact of Government Policies on Hotel Performance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Caribbean Countries

      • Swechchha Subedi, Marketa Kubickova
      Pages 267-291

    5. COVID-19: A Catalyst for E-Commerce in the Food and Beverage Service Industry in Barbados?

      • Paul A. Walcott
      Pages 293-320

    6. An Analysis of Residents’ Affinity for Tourism and Tourists During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Barbadian Experience

      • Aquíla Williams, Sherma Roberts
      Pages 321-347

  5. Business Responses to the Pandemic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 349-349
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About this book

Caribbean countries have had to navigate multiple crises, which have tested their collective resolve through time. In this regard, the region’s landscape has been shaped by an interplay of vulnerability and resilience which has brought to the fore possibilities and contradictions. It is within this context that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic must be considered. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Covid-19 and the Caribbean, Volume 1: The State, Economy and Health provides a comprehensive, multi- and interdisciplinary assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, using the Caribbean as the site of enquiry. The edited collection mobilises critical perspectives brought to bear on research produced within and beyond the boundaries and boundedness of conventional academic disciplinary divides, in response to the multi-dimensional crises of our time. The culmination of this collection offers a reimagining of our Caribbean contemporary futures in the hope of finding home-grown solutions, avenues and possibilities. This volume is divided into five (5) parts consisting of twenty-four (24) chapters and weaves together thematic strands that focus on governance, the macro and micro aspects of the economy, tourism and hospitality, business management and public health policy.  Together, the chapters in this volume tell the story of the extent and effects of Caribbean governments’ response to the pandemic and the ways in which industries and organisations have had to pivot to survive and transform their management and operational practices.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School for Graduate Studies and Research, The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown, Barbados

    Sherma Roberts

  • Institute for Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown, Barbados

    Halimah A. F. DeShong

  • Department of Humanities & Social Science, St. George’s University, St. George’s, Grenada

    Wendy C. Grenade

  • The Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management, The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown, Barbados

    Dwayne Devonish

About the editors

Sherma Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Director (Ag.) School for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She previously held the position of Deputy Dean Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences and was honoured to serve as the first Chairman of the Tobago Tourism Agency Limited 2017-2022. Sherma has co-edited 4 books, is the lead author of Contemporary Caribbean Tourism: Concepts and Cases and researches  and publishes in the area of sustainable tourism, community participation,  island tourism and tourism entrepreneurship.

Halimah A. F. DeShong is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Her research  focuses on gendered violence, feminist methodologies, anti-colonial feminisms, and the analysis of talk and text. She is co-editor of Methodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender & Sexuality (Ian Randle Publishers 2021). She served at the Ambassadorial level at the United Nations, and has created policy and curriculum for Caribbean governments on gendered violence.


Wendy C. Grenade is a Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, St. George’s University, Grenada.  She is a political scientist who specializes in International Relations and Comparative Politics. Professor Grenade critically interrogates topics such as regionalism, democracy, governance and security.  Her publications include over twenty peer-reviewed articles and an edited volume - The Grenada Revolution: Reflections and Lessons, which was published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2015.



Dwayne Devonish is Professor of Management and Organisational Behaviour in the Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management at the University of the WestIndies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.  His main research interests include organisational behaviour and psychology, work-related stress, health and wellness, human resource management, and strategic planning. In 2019, Professor Devonish was the lead author of the National Workplace Wellness Policy for Barbados which sought to inform the practice of workplace wellness programming across organisations.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Covid-19 and the Caribbean, Volume 1

  • Book Subtitle: The State, Economy and Health

  • Editors: Sherma Roberts, Halimah A. F. DeShong, Wendy C. Grenade, Dwayne Devonish

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30889-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30888-8Published: 13 August 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30891-8Due: 13 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30889-5Published: 12 August 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XLIV, 567

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Latin American and Caribbean Economics, Governance and Government, Political Sociology

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