Impacts and Responses to COVID-19: Perspectives from the Global South
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2020-12Author
Malherbe, Nick
van Niekerk, Ashley
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In this inaugural Special Issue on the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly its individual, family,
community, and societal impacts in Africa and - more broadly - in the Global South, we invited authors
to submit reflections on community intervention programmes, the socio-political constitution of the
pandemic, as well as the different kinds of health responses which have been observed. We also invited
submissions that sought to probe into interventions enacted by government and civil society to manage
the pandemic and its consequences. Some suggested topics here included: psychosocial and political
implications of the pandemic; effects on material well-being; COVID-19 and identity; pedagogical
implications; consequences for political organisation and impacts on policy; public health responses;
and social activism in the time of COVID-19.