Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Covid-19 and the Caribbean, Volume 1

Sherma Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Director (Ag.) School for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She previously held the position of Deputy Dean Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences and was honoured to serve as the first Chairman of the Tobago Tourism Agency Limited 2017-2022. Sherma has co-edited 4 books, is the lead author of Contemporary Caribbean Tourism: Concepts and Cases and researches  and publishes in the area of sustainable tourism, community participation,  island tourism and tourism entrepreneurship.Halimah A. F. DeShong is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Her research  focuses on gendered violence, feminist methodologies, anti-colonial feminisms, and the analysis of talk and text. She is co-editor of Methodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender & Sexuality (Ian Randle Publishers 2021). She served at the Ambassadorial level at the United Nations, and has created policy and curriculum for Caribbean governments on gendered violence.Wendy C. Grenade is a Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, St. George’s University, Grenada.  She is a political scientist who specializes in International Relations and Comparative Politics. Professor Grenade critically interrogates topics such as regionalism, democracy, governance and security.  Her publications include over twenty peer-reviewed articles and an edited volume - The Grenada Revolution: Reflections and Lessons, which was published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2015.Dwayne Devonish is Professor of Management and Organisational Behaviour in the Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management at the University of the WestIndies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.  His main research interests include organisational behaviour and psychology, work-related stress, health and wellness, human resource management, and strategic planning. In 2019, Professor Devonish was the lead author of the National Workplace Wellness Policy for Barbados which sought to inform the practice of workplace wellness programming across organisations.

• Part I State Responses and the COVID-19 Pandemic.- 1. Introduction.- 2. COVID-19 and Human (In)Security in the Caribbean: An Assessment of Grenada.- 3. Navigating Motherhood and Work: Caribbean State Responses in a Global Health Crisis.- 4. Revisiting Democracy in the Anglophone Caribbean in the Context of COVID-19 and Beyond.- 5. Elite Authoritarianism Versus Individual Liberty: The Politics of COVID-19 Management in Barbados.- 6. COVID-19 Pandemic: Mainstreaming Risk Assessment and Management.- Part II Navigating COVID-19: Economic Development Issues in the Caribbean.- 7. COVID-19 and the Caribbean: Economic Perspectives.- 8. Social Insecurity: COVID-19, Unemployment Insurance, and the Case for Reform in the Eastern Caribbean.- 9. Managing COVID-19 in the French Caribbean: The Case of Martinique.- 10. Using Monitoring and Evaluation and Evidence-Based Data to Build a More Resilient and Sustainable Caribbean Post COVID-19.- Part III Tourism and Hospitality Perspectives on COVID-19.- 11. Absorb, Adapt, or Transform? An Exploratory Analysis of Small Tourism Businesses’ Resilience Strategies During the Pandemic.- 12. “Furloughed and Frustrated But I am Fighting”: Women Hotel Workers and the Cost and Value of COVID-19.- 13. The Impact of Government Policies on Hotel Performance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Caribbean Countries.- 14. COVID-19: A Catalyst for E-Commerce in the Food and Beverage Service Industry in Barbados?.- 15. An Analysis of Residents’ Affinity for Tourism and Tourists During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Barbadian Experience.- Part IV Business Responses to the Pandemic.- 16. Key Recommendations for Managing Organisational Change Hesitancy in Caribbean Workplaces Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Conceptual Paper.- 17. Understanding the Pandemic Transformed Consumer: What Is the New Normal?.- 18. The Impact of Fear and Loneliness on the Buyer-Seller Interface and Service Quality in the Context of COVID-19: A Caribbean Perspective.- 19. Too Small to See but Too Painful to Ignore: Regulatory Solutions to Sudden Stop in Cash Flow in MSMEs Caused by the COVID-19.- 20. COVID-19 and AML/CFT Regulation of the Barbados Global Business Sector.- Part V Responses to COVID-19: Public Health and Public Policy.- 21. Regional COVID-19 Pandemic Response in the Caribbean: Contributions of the Caribbean Public Health Agency Expert Advisory Group.- 22. One Hand Cannot Clap: Building Resiliency Through Collaborative—Policy Decisions in the New COVID-19 Era.- 23. Public Policy in a COVID-19 Era: The Cost of Self-Autonomy.- 24. COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Uptake in the Caribbean: A Cross-Country Intersectional Perspective.- 25. Afterword: Re-imagining Caribbean Futures Post-COVID-19.