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 pandemics ongoing effects and its potential impact on future systems and processes. Drawn from two special issues of The Journal of Human Rightsone published within eight months of the first lockdowns, the other published almost two years into the pandemicthis 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.
This book draws globally recognized human rights scholars and practitioners into dialogue over costs and consequences of the pandemic. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Politics, Sociology, Social Work, Economics, Anthropology, Social and Political Geography, and Public Policy.
Part 1: Early Views and Analysis of the Pandemic IntroductionHuman
rights in the time of COVID-19 Centering Rights-Based Theory and Praxis
1.
Revisiting interdependence in times and terms of crisis
2. A forecasted
failure: Intersectionality, COVID-19, and the perfect storm
3. Solidarity in
times of crisis Re-examining Health
4. Global health and human rights in the
time of COVID-19: Response, restrictions, legitimacy
5. Human rights
obligations of drug companies
6. What COVID-19 revealed about health, human
rights, and the WHO Contesting Power and Control
7. Legal empowerment
approaches in the context of COVID-19
8. Freedom of movement, migration, and
borders
9. State surveillance and the COVID-19 crisis
10. Hazardous
confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic: The fate of migrants detained yet
nondeportable Part 2: Ongoing Debates IntroductionBeyond complacency and
acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world
11. The state of
human rights in a (post) COVID-19 world Windows of Opportunity to Worsen
Human Rights
12. Can nonviolent resistance survive COVID-19?
13. The COVID-19
pandemic and authoritarian consolidation in North Africa Fighting COVID-19,
Maintain Human Rights: Challenges and Tradeoffs
14. Pandemic patriarchy: The
impact of a global health crisis on womens rights
15. The effect of the
COVID-19 pandemic on human rights practices: Findings from the Human Rights
Measurement Initiatives 2021 Practitioner Survey
16. Global perceptions of
South Koreas COVID-19 policy responses: Topic modeling with tweets Lessons
Learned for the Future
17. Hindsight is 2020: Lessons from the COVID-19
pandemic for future human rights research
Shareen Hertel is Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, USA, jointly appointed with the UConn Human Rights Institute. She is Editor of The Journal of Human Rights and has worked with United Nations agencies, foundations, and nongovernmental organizations in the United States, Latin America, and South Asia.
Catherine Buerger is the Director of Research at the Dangerous Speech Project (DSP). She is the Managing Editor of The Journal of Human Rights and has published widely in academic and policy outlets. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut.
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