Covid-19 Restrictions in the Global South

Aleida Mendes Borges leads the Grassroots Women Leaders research stream at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL), Kings College London, UK. She is co-editor of Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences (2022), and she has authored several other reports and peer-reviewed publications in English and Portuguese.Toby Green is Professor of African history at King’s College London, UK. His book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (2019) was awarded several international literary prizes and was shortlisted for both the the LA Times Book Prize and the Wolfson History Prize. He is also a co-author (with Thomas Fazi) of The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor – A Critique from the Left (2023). T. Sundararaman is Professor and Dean of the School of Health Systems Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India, as well as adjunct faculty at the School of Public Health in Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, India. He is also a former director, and current member of the global steering council, of the Peoples Health Movement. He has over two decades of practitioner experience and has helped design and implement multiple state- and national-level health systems initiatives, including India’s National Rural Health Mission.

An important book...it demonstrates the lopsided nature of much current analysis, and reveals why listening to voices from the Global South is crucial in achieving greater preparedness for future global crises.

• Part I. The Impacts of Covid Restrictions on Healthcare1. Lockdowns as a Crisis of Both Public Health and Science Policy: Learnings from a Case StudyT. Sundararaman (People’s Health Movement and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India)2. Unrestricted Analysis of the COVID Narrative in Africa: Emphasis on the Ghanaian Medical ContextSamuel Adu-Gyamfi(Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana)3. Covid-19 Restrictions and their Impacts on Society: Experiences from UgandaDavid Musoke and Suzan Nakalawa (Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda)Part II. Economic Impacts and the Impacts on the Informal Market4.: Exploring the Impact of the Pandemic on Low-Income Migrant Workers: Ethnographic Reflections from the Neighborhood of Kapashera, National Capital Region of Delhi, IndiaDeepanshu Mohan, Hima Trisha, and Shubhangi Derhgawen (O.P. Jindal Global University, India)5. The Impacts of Covid Restrictions in Bolivia and the Importance of a Subnational AnalysisAlejandra Gonzales Rocabado (Conservation Strategy Fund, Bolivia)6. The Impact of COVID-19 Restrictions on Livelihood Security and Access to Healthcare Services Among Informal Vendors in ZimbabweTinashe Tony Chikafa (Kryptos Solutions, Zimbabwe) Lewis Sibanda (Zimbabwean Superior Courts and Open University, UK), Nathan Chiboyiwa (Ministry of Health and Childcare, Zimbabwe), and Egepha Jokomo (Africa University, Zimbabwe)Part III. Covid Restrictions and Aggravated Inequalities of Race and Gender7. Afro-descendant Populations and the Covid-19 Crisis in Cartagena de Indias: Analyzing the Necro-politic Practices from an Intersectional PerspectiveAirlín Pérez Carrascal (Political and human rights activist, Columbia)8. The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns in the Global South: Voices from Humanitarian Frontline WorkersLlanos Ortíz Montero (Kings College London, UK)9. Lockdowns and Girls’ Schooling: Old Story, New TwistReva Yunus (University of York, UK)Part IV. Education and the Public Sphere10. Educational Leadership and Policy in Angolan Education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and ProspectsNicolau Nkiawete Manuel (Agostinho Neto University, Angola)11.Reshaping the Medical and Political Discourses on School Closures during the Pandemic: The Turkish CaseTomris Cesuroglu (VU University, Netherlands); Aysuda Kölmelen (Bard College, Germany); and Gül Pamucku Gunaydin (Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey)12.Covid-19 as a ‘Politico-health’ crisis: Reflections on Africa’s Economies of (Information) ControlGeorge Ogola (University of Nottingham, UK)13. Missing in Action: Academia, Neoliberalism, and the Loss of Internationalist Critique during the Covid-19 PandemicAleida Borges and Toby Green (Kings College London, UK)