Pandemic Policies and Resistance

Southern Feminist Critiques in Times of Covid-19
Herausgeber: Blanco, Masaya Llavaneras; Gock, Damien P

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Produktbeschreibung

Southern feminists assess the gendered social repercussions of Covid-19 across 12 countries in the Global South.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781350513617
• ISBN-10: 135051361X
• Artikelnr.: 72073411

Autorenporträt

Masaya Llavaneras Blanco is Assistant Professor of Development Studies at Huron University College at Western University, Canada, and an executive committee member of DAWN. Her research focuses on feminist political economy, development studies, South-South human mobilities, and social reproduction in the Global South. Damien P. Gock is a PhD candidate at Western Sydney University, Australia, a DAWN associate, and a board member of the Alliance for Future Generations (AFG), Fiji. His research focuses on migration, women, and care regimes in Australia and Fiji.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Lather, Rinse, Repeat?: Women and Gender Inequalities in the
Pandemic Conjuncture
Masaya Llavaneras Blanco and Damien P. Gock
Section I: Examining Austerity and Path Dependence
1. Macro Patriarchal Pandemic Policy: The India Case
Ritu Dewan (Indian Society of Labour Economics)
2. Food for Thought Curtailed: Austerity, Socioeconomic Crises and Ghana's
School Feeding Program
Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey and Sylvia Ohene Marfo (University of Ghana)
3. Social Protection and Care Policies: Impacts on Gendered Inequalities in
Trinidad and Tobago
Karen A. Roopnarine and Crystal Brizan (CAFRA, St. Lucia)
4: The impact of Covid-19 on Domestic Workers in China: Reflections on a
Fragmented Policy Response
Zhihong Sa (Beijing Normal University, China)
Section II: Attempting to Depart from Path Dependence
5. Who Really Wins?: Kiribati Labour Mobility Schemes and the Post-Covid
Lockdown Era
Roi Burnett (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
6. Social Protection Versus Orthodoxy: Lessons from South Africa
Busi Sibeko (SOAS, UK)
7. The Crisis of Care: Crafting Social Care Policies through Debt and
Covid-19 Pandemic
Daniele Bobb and Leigh-Ann Worrell (University of the West Indies, Jamaica)
8. Conditional Transfer Programmes during the Covid-19 Crisis in the
Plurinational State of Bolivia
Silvia Amparo Fernández Cervantes (Independent, Bolivia)
Section III: Social Organizing, Resistance, and a Collective Politics of
Care
9. The Pathway Towards the Care System in Argentina: Transformative
Potential and Persistent Challenges
Cecilia Fraga and Corina Rodríguez Enríquez (University of Buenos Aires,
Argentina)
10. Transformative Action for Domestic Workers in Jamaica: Analyzing
Factors Influencing Grassroots Feminist Organizing in Times of Covid-19
Ayesha Constable (IISD, Switzerland)
11. Collective Care to Confront the Pandemic: Migrant and Pro-Migrant
Activism in Chile
Nanette Liberona, Carolina Stefoni and Sius Salinas (University of
Tarapacá, Chile)
12. Organizing from the Heart: Migrant Domestic Workers' Resistance in
Malaysia during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Liva Sreedharan (NEOM, Malaysia) and Yen Ne Foo (Independent, Malaysia)
Conclusion
Masaya Llavaneras Blanco and Damien P. Gock
Index