Structural inequality in the time of COVID-19: Urbanization, segregation, and pandemic control in sub-Saharan Africa/
Material type: ArticlePublication details: sage 2020Description: vol 10, issue 2, 2020 : (217–220 p.)Online resources: In: Dialogues in human geographySummary: The COVID-19 pandemic exposes countries and people in sub-Saharan Africa to severe risks because of structural global inequalities. There is a simultaneous risk of the use of public health action to enact oppressive governance policies, which is happening in response to COVID-19 in many countries. In this commentary, we use the example of 20th-century pandemic control in pre-apartheid South Africa to illustrate how public health crises can engender oppressive social, economic, and spatial transformations.Item type | Current library | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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The COVID-19 pandemic exposes countries and people in sub-Saharan Africa to severe risks because of structural global inequalities. There is a simultaneous risk of the use of public health action to enact oppressive governance policies, which is happening in response to COVID-19 in many countries. In this commentary, we use the example of 20th-century pandemic control in pre-apartheid South Africa to illustrate how public health crises can engender oppressive social, economic, and spatial transformations.
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