State-Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic

ISBN-13: 9781032343259 / Miękka / 2023 / 280 str.

Opis

The collection examines state-society relations during the COVID-19 pandemic, from governance at the outset of the pandemic to vaccine rollouts, via a series of case studies from around the world with a focus on the Global South.

Spis treści

Introduction – A ‘Rapid Test’: States and Societies Through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic  Part I: Decentering the Pandemic  1. ‘The Country's Problem Is Not the Coronavirus': Multiple Crises in Bolivia  2. Recentering the Necropolitics of COVID-19: A Perspective from Angola  3. COVID-19 and Non-State People: Uncompromised Wild Food Consumption in Binga, Zimbabwe  Part II: Exclusion and Inequality  4. Viral Contradictions: Canadian Exceptionalism and COVID-19  5. Unequal Pandemics: COVID-19 in Jamaica  6. Protecting the Vulnerable? COVID-19 Policy in Sweden  Part III: State Capacity and Legitimacy  7. Brazil: Tragedy and Political Choices in the Face of COVID-19 8. COVID-19 and Political Crisis: State Capacity and Defiance in Argentina  9. Negotiating Ritual Life in Indonesia: State and Worship in Times of COVID-19  Part IV: Trust, Solidarity and Time  10. Mutations of Democracy: Aotearoa New Zealand’s COVID-19 Response  11. Populist Governance in Times of Crisis: COVID-19 in the Czech Republic  12. Rallying the Nation: Institutional Trust and South Africa’s Pandemic Experience

O autorze

Federica Duca is a senior researcher at the Public Affairs Research Institute and a research associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research focuses on state–society relations and the relationship between spatial and social forms in relation to wealth and privilege, as well as citizenship and the changing form of the nation-state.

Sarah Meny-Gibert is head of the state reform programme at the Public Affairs Research Institute and is a research associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research interests are in civil service reform and its histories, the sociology of public bureaucracies, and state–citizen relations in the governance of public education.