Systemic Inequality, Sustainability and COVID-19

Seela Aladuwaka is Associate Professor of Geography at Alabama State University, USA. Her research interests include poverty, microfinance, gender and development, and health disparity.Barbara Wejnert is Professor of Political Sociology-Democracy, Sustainability, and Gender at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA. Her research interests include worldwide diffusion of democracy, political freedoms, economic and social development, and the effects of democratization on the well-being of societies.Ram Alagan is Professor of Geography at Alabama State University, USA. His research interests include GIS, Civil Rights GIS, Health Disparity, Environmental Impact Assessment, and Regional Studies.

• Part I. Heath and Social Inequality and COVID-19Chapter 1. Social Determinants of Health Disparities and COVID-19 in Black Belt Communities in Alabama: Geospatial Analyses; Seela Aladuwaka, Barbara Wejnert, Ram Alagan, and Manoj MishraChapter 2. A Naturalistic Observation of Mask Wearing Behavior in a Southeastern United States Town During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Marcia Rossi and Andria MooreChapter 3. Selected Aspects of Discrimination against the Elderly in the Polish Health Care System; Żaklina SkrentyChapter 4. Invisible Frontline Warriors of COVID-19: An Intersectional Feminist Study of ASHA Workers in India; Manorama UpadhyayaChapter 5. Impact of COVID-19 on Employment in Himachal Pradesh - A Case Study; Yashpal Malik, Nirupama Prakash, and SumanChapter 6. Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19: Legislative and Judicial Measures for Protection and Support of the Women Victims of Domestic Violence in Sri Lanka; Muthukuda Arachchige Dona Shiroma Jeeva Shirajanie NiriellaChapter 7. Gender Relations and Dynamics of Internal Committee: Case Studies from Private and Public Institutions; KamalaveniChapter 8. Care Ethics in the Time of COVID-19: Are We Our Brother’s Keepers? Some Insights from the Efforts of “Food for Chennai,” India; Sunita George and Raymond GreeneChapter 9. Iranian Dating Sites in the Age of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study on Muslim Married Women; Dariush Boostani, Naima Mohammadi, and Fattah Hatami MaskouniPart II. Environment, Sustainability, and COVID-19Chapter 10. A Reflection on Biodiversity in a Time of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Foundation of Environmental Sustainability; Camille Wejnert-DepueChapter 11. Systemic Inequality, Sustainability and COVID-19 in U.S. Prisons: A Sociological Exploration of Women’s Prison Gardens in Pandemic Times; Daniela Jauk, Brenda Gill, Christie Caruana, and Sharon EverhardtChapter 12. COVID-19 in Chile: Personal and Political Outcomes; James G. Linn, Jorge Chuaqui, and Aristoteles C. AlencarChapter 13. Corporate Mining, Sustainable Development, and Human Rights of the Indigenous People in the Philippines: Implications for Building Resiliency to the Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic; Ligaya Lindio McGovernChapter 14. Genealogies of Sustainable Development? Life Stories of Frugal, Inventive, and Creative Women; Izabela SkórzyńskaChapter 15. Birdsong and the Diseased Gaia in the Anthropocene: An Ecofeminist Reading of Terry Tempest Williams’ Memoirs - Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place and When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice; Jagriti Upadhyaya