ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life across the world, placing people at risk as our responses to it alter not only health and wellbeing but also governance, economies, social relations, and our interaction with the natural environment. This volume draws globally recognized human rights scholars and practitioners into dialogue over the costs and consequences of the pandemic. With insights and data from fields as diverse as medicine, anthropology, political science, social work, business, and law, these contributors help us make sense of the pandemic’s ongoing effects and its potential impact on future systems and processes. Drawn from two special issues of The Journal of Human Rights—one published within eight months of the first lockdowns, the other published almost two years into the pandemic—this book offers one of the most comprehensive collections of such research available. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Politics, Sociology, Social Work, Economics, Anthropology, Social and Political Geography, and Public Policy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|111 pages
Early views and analysis of the pandemic
part |28 pages
Centering rights-based theory and praxis
part |36 pages
Re-examining health
part |44 pages
Contesting power and control
part II|124 pages
Ongoing debates
part |34 pages
Windows of opportunity to worsen human rights
part |59 pages
Fighting COVID-19, maintain human rights: Challenges and tradeoffs
part |12 pages
Lessons learned for the future