Full Description
The Inequality of COVID-19: Immediate Health Communication, Governance and Response in Four Indigenous Regions explores the use of information, communication technologies (ICTs) and longer-term guidelines, directives and general policy initiatives. The cases document implications of the failure of various governments to establish robust policies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in a sample of advanced and low-income countries. Because the global institutions charged with managing the COVID-19 crisis did not work in harmony, the results have been devastating. The four Indigenous communities selected were the Navajo of the southwest United States, Siddi people in India, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia and the Maasai in East Africa.
Although these are all diverse communities, spread across different continents, their base economic oppression and survival from colonial violence is a common denominator in hypothesizing the public health management outcomes. However, the research reveals that national leadership and other incoherent pandemic mitigation policies account for a significant amount of the devastation caused in these communities.
Contents
1. Managing a Pandemic in Unequal Worlds
2. Understanding Layered Dimensions of COVID-19
3. COVID-19 Policy Responses and Feedback in Navajo Country
4. Internal and External Maasai Communications and Management of COVID-19
5. Managing the COVID-19 Pandemic in India's Siddi zones
6. COVID-19 Communication and Indigenous Australians
7. An Overview of Pandemic Response
8. Unequal Virus Beyond 2020: Paths Forward
