ISBN:
978-3-031-40315-6
Language:
English
Pages:
xxvi, 315 Seiten :
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Illustrationen, Diagramme ;
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22 cm.
Series Statement:
African histories and modernities
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- / Social aspects / Africa
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- / Economic aspects / Africa
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Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020- / Aspect social / Afrique
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Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020- / Aspect économique / Afrique
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Epidemie.
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COVID-19.
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Gesellschaft.
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Auswirkung.
;
Sozialer Wandel.
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Africa.
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Informational works
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Documents d'information
;
Epidemie
;
COVID-19
;
Gesellschaft
;
Auswirkung
;
Sozialer Wandel
Abstract:
"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. The volume is thus a useful resource for scholars of Africa, policy makers and those who want to understand Covid-19 in Africa. It provides a multiplicity of perspectives of the pandemic and African responses at different levels of society, economy and the political spectrum. The continental focus of this volume gives room for broader comparative analyses. Lastly, this interdisciplinary work benefits from the input of medical historians, anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, political scientists, literature scholars, urban planners, geographers and others." --
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Covid-19 in Africa: social and economic ramifications / Susan Arndt, Banhoro Yacouba, Taibat Lawanson, Enocent Msindo, and Peter Simatei -- Part I. Discoursing and narrating the pandemic : 2. So much fear and questioning: a comparative study of discourses on Covid-19 in Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon / Martina Drescher, Oumarou Boukari, and Liliane Carline Ngawa Mbaho -- 3. Wrathful Gods: ethnography of religion, myths and interpretations of coronavirus in Nigeria / Ayokunmi O. Ojebode, Stephen O. Solanke, and Oluwabusayo S. Okunloye -- 4. Poetic verses on Covid-19: Hausa lyricist's expressions on the pandemic / Umma Aliyu Musa -- 5. The public university of Niamey in the era of Covid-19: social perception, appropriation of regulations and management of Muslim worship / Mahamadou Bello Adamou and Amadou Oumarou --
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II. Experiencing and coping with the pandemic : 6. Inequalities, exclusion, and Covid-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa / Raymond Boadi Frempong, Jacob Novignon, and David Stadelmann -- 7. Covid-19 and intersectional discrimination in Nigeria / Dikko Muhammad -- 8. Covid-19, Islam and digital media in Côte d'Ivoire: response measures and reinvention of religious practices / Issouf Binaté -- 9. Social affects of Covid-19 pandemic in Uganda / Rosemary Nakijoba, Racheal Ddungu Mugabi, Ayodeji Awobamise, and Zaaly'embikke I.M. Majanja -- 10. The informal sector and the fight against Covid-19: insights from commercial bus drivers and petty marketers in Lagos, Nigeria / Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko and Ademola K. Fayemi -- 11. Social representations and economic impacts of measures to combat Covid-19 in artisanal gold mining in Burkina Faso / Yacouba Banhoro and Hermann M. Konkobo --
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Part III. Pandemic(s) and the ethics of care : 12. 'Staying with the trouble': decolonial care and intersectional responsibility in knowledge production in Covid-19 times / Christine Vogt-William -- 13. From colonial violence to bare life in South Africa: sexual violence and care ethics during the Covid-19 pandemic / Amanda Gouws -- Index
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