Impacts and Responses to COVID-19: Perspectives from the Global South

Abstract

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.