Covid-19 Restrictions in the Global South - Accelerating Inequalities, Worsening Human Rights

This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary collection is one of the first scholarly books in the world to address the impacts of Covid-19 restrictions on the Global South. Bringing together health and social scientists from around the world--including many leading figures from Global-South countries such as Angola, Bolivia, Colombia, India, Kenya, and Nigeria--the book shows how, in low- and middle-income countries in particular, Covid responses often exacerbate problems and inequalities around education, gender, socioeconomics, and politics and political economics. They negatively and disproportionately affect routine medical treatments; vaccination programmes; access to maternity and neo-natal care; child learning and socialization; women''s caring responsibilities; gender-based socioeconomic differences; and rates of domestic violence, all while accelerating existing trends towards political authoritarianism and damaging democratic processes. In offering in-depth perspectives on all these problems, this book ultimately challenges practitioners to include Southern perspectives in future emergency response-planning, and it develops both global and multidisciplinary paradigms to guide them in their efforts.

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• Authors: Aleida Borges, Toby Green, Sundarar Thiagarajan
• Assisted by: Aleida Borges (Editor), Green Toby (Editor), Sundararaman Thiagarajan (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 06.08.2026
• EAN: 9781350542365
• ISBN: 978-1-350-54236-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Human Rights, Health economics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Social discrimination & inequality, Political Economy, Public health & preventive medicine, Educational strategies & policy, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Health Care, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies, Relating to Latin / Hispanic US American people