Rights at Stake and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Two Special Issues of the Journal of Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9781032218250 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 226 str.

Hertel, Shareen

Opis

This book draws globally recognized human rights scholars and practitioners into dialogue over costs and consequences of the pandemic. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Politics, Sociology, Social Work, Economics, Anthropology, Social and Political Geography, and Public Policy.

Spis treści

Part 1: Early Views and Analysis of the Pandemic  Introduction—Human rights in the time of COVID-19  Centering Rights-Based Theory and Praxis   1. Revisiting interdependence in times and terms of crisis  2. A forecasted failure: Intersectionality, COVID-19, and the perfect storm  3. Solidarity in times of crisis  Re-examining Health  4. Global health and human rights in the time of COVID-19: Response, restrictions, legitimacy  5. Human rights obligations of drug companies  6. What COVID-19 revealed about health, human rights, and the WHO  Contesting Power and Control  7. Legal empowerment approaches in the context of COVID-19  8. Freedom of movement, migration, and borders  9. State surveillance and the COVID-19 crisis  10. Hazardous confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic: The fate of migrants detained yet nondeportable  Part 2: Ongoing Debates  Introduction—Beyond complacency and acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world  11. The state of human rights in a (post) COVID-19 world  Windows of Opportunity to Worsen Human Rights  12. Can nonviolent resistance survive COVID-19?  13. The COVID-19 pandemic and authoritarian consolidation in North Africa  Fighting COVID-19, Maintain Human Rights: Challenges and Tradeoffs  14. Pandemic patriarchy: The impact of a global health crisis on women’s rights  15. The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights practices: Findings from the Human Rights Measurement Initiative’s 2021 Practitioner Survey  16. Global perceptions of South Korea’s COVID-19 policy responses: Topic modeling with tweets  Lessons Learned for the Future  17. Hindsight is 2020: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for future human rights research