The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life

Notes on Contributors vii

1 The planetary impact of COVID-19 1

Inocent Moyo and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

2 Reengaging power: state responses to COVID-19 and the provision of public goods in Canada and the United States of America 9

Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba and Kgoto Jan Mbele

3 COVID-19 and the challenges of trauma, transformations, and deborderisation: ethics, politics, and spirituality and alternative planetary futures 29

Ananta Kumar Giri

4 The COVID-19 moment: exacerbation of narrow nationalisms and their toxicity to integration aspirations 42

Zenzo Moyo

5 COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitics of health, and security entanglement in West Africa 60

Olukayode A. Faleye

6 The conundrum of balancing between COVID-19 policing and human rights protection in South Africa: a responsibility to protect perspective (R2P) 75

Patrick Dzimiri

7 A Trojan horse: critically exploring data as a colonial instrument during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa 90

Kyle John Bester and Danille Elize Arendse

8 Occupational health in the mining industry of South Africa and the COVID-19 pandemic 109

Robert Maseko

9 "On est pas de cobayes": Congolese migrants and health transnationalism in the COVID-19 moment 127

Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka and Christopher Changwe Nshimbi

10 "#Corona Jihad": remanufacturing Islamophobic narratives during COVID-19 in contemporary India 141

Sayan Dey

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