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Book SynopsisThis book explores the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic is poised to be a permanent fixture in the modern world which in contemporary times will be thought of in terms of before and after the pandemic. It looks at how the pandemic has brought to the fore the question of the appropriate ethics, politics, and spirituality and highlights the present condition of humanity and the need to rethink alternative planetary futures. It argues that the pandemic has existential and epistemic implications for human life on planet Earth, and a postCOVID-19 future requires a fundamental transformation of the present economic, political, and social conditions.
Drawing on empirical case studies on the COVID-19 pandemic from Africa and beyond, contributions in this book challenge the reader to rethink alternative planetary futures. It will be a useful resource for students, scholars, and researchers of African studies, citizenship studies, global development, global politics, human geograph
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
1 The planetary impact of COVID-19 1
Inocent Moyo and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
2 Reengaging power: state responses to COVID-19 and the provision of public goods in Canada and the United States of America 9
Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba and Kgoto Jan Mbele
3 COVID-19 and the challenges of trauma, transformations, and deborderisation: ethics, politics, and spirituality and alternative planetary futures 29
Ananta Kumar Giri
4 The COVID-19 moment: exacerbation of narrow nationalisms and their toxicity to integration aspirations 42
Zenzo Moyo
5 COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitics of health, and security entanglement in West Africa 60
Olukayode A. Faleye
6 The conundrum of balancing between COVID-19 policing and human rights protection in South Africa: a responsibility to protect perspective (R2P) 75
Patrick Dzimiri
7 A Trojan horse: critically exploring data as a colonial instrument during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa 90
Kyle John Bester and Danille Elize Arendse
8 Occupational health in the mining industry of South Africa and the COVID-19 pandemic 109
Robert Maseko
9 “On est pas de cobayes”: Congolese migrants and health transnationalism in the COVID-19 moment 127
Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka and Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
10 “#Corona Jihad”: remanufacturing Islamophobic narratives during COVID-19 in contemporary India 141
Sayan Dey
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