Constructing the Pandemic in Pakistan - Competing Perceptions, Politics, Structured Disparities During Covid

With a focus on the way the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in Pakistan, this book casts a critical light on the unique experiences and responses of individuals, community and government. It critically examines how these diverse actors made sense of and navigated the outbreak of disease.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Inayat Ali 1. Remasking Structured Disparities: A Tale of Fate, New Untouchables, Unequal Effects, and the "Viral Coup" Inayat Ali 2. Rituals of Containment: Many Pandemics, Body Politics, and Social Dramas during COVID-19 in Pakistan Inayat Ali 3. New Virus, Old Narratives: Contextualizing Rumors, Conspiracy Theories, and Fear Inayat Ali 4. Maternal Health and Systematic Disparities: Multiple Impacts of the Pandemic on Mothers Inayat Ali, Salma Sadique and Shahbaz Ali 5. Birthing Between the "Traditional" and the "Modern": D¿i Practices and Childbearing Women's Choices during COVID-19 in Pakistan Inayat Ali, Salma , Shahbaz Ali, and Robbie Davis-Floyd 6. Between Responsibility and Risk: Experiences, Perceptions, Fears, and Responsibilities of Frontline Healthcare Providers Dealing with COVID-19 Inayat Ali, Salma Saddique and Shahbaz Ali 7. Experiencing and Surviving a Pandemic: Live Experiences of COVID-19 Survivors from Pakistan Inayat Ali, Salma Sadique, Shahbaz Ali and Sania Zehra 8. COVID-19 and vaccination campaigns as "Western plots" in Pakistan: Government policies, (geo-)politics and local perceptions and beliefs Inayat Ali, Shahbaz Ali, and Salma Sadique 9. COVID-19 Child Vaccination in Pakistan: Exploring Factors Affecting Parental Choices Inayat Ali, Nida Gulshan Nawaz, and Sania Zahra 10. COVID-19, Multiple Emergencies, and Moral Entanglements: Extraordinary and Transcendental Moral Worlds as a New Way Forward Inayat Ali Conclusions Inayat Ali. Index

About the author

Inayat Ali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Founding Incharge of the Department of Public Health & Allied Sciences at Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan. He also serves as a Research Fellow in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Product details

• Authors: Inayat Ali
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 12.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032441887
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244188-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Pakistan, Sociology, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Personal & public health, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Human biology, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Personal and public health / health education, Medical Anthropology, COVID-19;Pandemic;Pakistan;Public Health