Pandemic Policies and Resistance

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. The chapters provide a comprehensive and intersectional perspective on how the pandemic affected, and continues to affect, women and girls of different ages, classes, races, ethnicities, and abilities.Contributors across Asia, Africa, the Carribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific consistently find that the pandemic offered unique opportunities to tackle long-standing global inequalities, but they also highlight how, in reality, what often emerged were "regimes of exception" that compromised democratic practices during this global crisis. Various movements and organizations developed important new forms of resistance to such regimes and, by also bringing these to light, these chapters make important interventions into critical debates on the role of the state, the market, and civil society in addressing pandemics and their aftermaths. This ultimately challenges dominant narratives that overlook or marginalize the gendered implications of these crises, and in doing so provides an original, gender-aware analytical framework for understanding Global-South policy trends - one that offers concrete policy and practice recommendations for promoting gender equality and justice in the future. 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).

Préface
Southern feminists assess the gendered social repercussions of Covid-19 across 12 countries in Asia, Africa, the Carribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific.

Auteur

Masaya Llavaneras Blanco is Assistant Professor of Development Studies at Huron University College at Western University, Canada, and an executive committee member of DAWN. Her research focuses on feminist political economy, development studies, South-South human mobilities, and social reproduction in the Global South. Damien P. Gock is a PhD candidate at Western Sydney University, Australia, a DAWN associate, and a board member of the Alliance for Future Generations (AFG), Fiji. His research focuses on migration, women, and care regimes in Australia and Fiji.

Contenu

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