Decolonisation Pathways : Coloniality and African Responses to COVID-19.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ngendo-Tshimba, David.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Uganda Martyr's University, 2025.

Summary:

The prolonged COVID-19 lockdown across many countries in Africa, and the world at large, did take a huge toll on the resilience of societies, markets and governments.This second volume of Decolonisation Pathways makes it clear and bold that pandemics are too serious a matter to be left to epidemiologists and pathologists alone.

Contents:

Front cover

Uganda Martyrs University Book Series

Title page

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

Contributors

Foreword: Survivor Consciousness and Economies of Care in a Post-COVID-19 World

Unlocking Africa’s Potential

Introduction: COVID-19 Lockdowns and Recolonised African Lives

Lockdown lives akin to colonised lives

Contribution to the COVID-19 Scholarly Shelf

Outline of this volume

References

PART ONE | The primacy of African state borders under COVID-19

1 | COVID-19 and the Return of the State: Decolonial Reflections on the Locking of Borders

Introduction

The Weberian ‘Normative’ State Model

Westphalian Sovereignty Order

Conclusion

2 | COVID-19, Human Rights and the Question of Belonging in East Africa’s Border Communities

COVID 19 and/in the border communities of East Africa

Borderwork

Coloniality of border

State responses to COVID-19 in East Africa

Border Communities’ Responses to Governments’ COVID-19 SOPs

The border, belonging, and democracy in COVID-19 pandemic times

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ISBN:

9970-09-200-6

OCLC:

1522806834