Full Description
Offering Southern feminist assessments of detailed case studies from 12 countries, this open access book provides crucial insights into the gendered repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on macroeconomics, labour, migration and human mobilities, and care and social protection throughout the Global South.
Using DAWN's interlinkages approach, the chapters provide a comprehensive and intersectional perspective on how the pandemic affected, and continues to affect people, especially women and girls of different ages, gender identity and sexual orientation, class, race, ethnicity, citizenship and migration status.
Written by Southern feminist academics, activists and thinkers across Asia, Africa, the Carribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific, the volume highlights how the pandemic was often used as an opportunity to create periods of exception that compromised democratic processes. Contributors pay special attention to the opportunities for transformative practices that emerged during the pandemic, highlighting the role of resistance and social mobilization. By bringing to light important new forms of resistance the chapters make important interventions into critical debates on the role of the state, the market, civil society, and grassroots organizing in addressing pandemics, other complex crises, and their aftermaths.
This volume ultimately challenges dominant narratives that overlook the gendered implications of crises, and in doing so provides an original, feminist analytical framework for understanding policy trends shaping realities the world over — one that offers concrete policy and practice recommendations for fostering southern-based feminist and social justice.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN).
Contents
Introduction: Lather, Rinse, Repeat?: Women and Gender Inequalities in the Pandemic Conjuncture
Masaya Llavaneras Blanco and Damien P. Gock
Section I: Examining Austerity and Path Dependence
1. Macro Patriarchal Pandemic Policy: The India Case
Ritu Dewan (Indian Society of Labour Economics)
2. Food for Thought Curtailed: Austerity, Socioeconomic Crises and Ghana's School Feeding Program
Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey and Sylvia Ohene Marfo (University of Ghana)
3. Social Protection and Care Policies: Impacts on Gendered Inequalities in Trinidad and Tobago
Karen A. Roopnarine and Crystal Brizan (CAFRA, St. Lucia)
4: The impact of Covid-19 on Domestic Workers in China: Reflections on a Fragmented Policy Response
Zhihong Sa (Beijing Normal University, China)
Section II: Attempting to Depart from Path Dependence
5. Who Really Wins?: Kiribati Labour Mobility Schemes and the Post-Covid Lockdown Era
Roi Burnett (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
6. Social Protection Versus Orthodoxy: Lessons from South Africa
Busi Sibeko (SOAS, UK)
7. The Crisis of Care: Crafting Social Care Policies through Debt and Covid-19 Pandemic
Daniele Bobb and Leigh-Ann Worrell (University of the West Indies, Jamaica)
8. Conditional Transfer Programmes during the Covid-19 Crisis in the Plurinational State of Bolivia
Silvia Amparo Fernández Cervantes (Independent, Bolivia)
Section III: Social Organizing, Resistance, and a Collective Politics of Care
9. The Pathway Towards the Care System in Argentina: Transformative Potential and Persistent Challenges
Cecilia Fraga and Corina Rodríguez Enríquez (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
10. Transformative Action for Domestic Workers in Jamaica: Analyzing Factors Influencing Grassroots Feminist Organizing in Times of Covid-19
Ayesha Constable (IISD, Switzerland)
11. Collective Care to Confront the Pandemic: Migrant and Pro-Migrant Activism in Chile
Nanette Liberona, Carolina Stefoni and Sius Salinas (University of Tarapacá, Chile)
12. Organizing from the Heart: Migrant Domestic Workers' Resistance in Malaysia during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Liva Sreedharan (NEOM, Malaysia) and Yen Ne Foo (Independent, Malaysia)
Conclusion
Masaya Llavaneras Blanco and Damien P. Gock
Index
