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COVID-19 Lockdowns and the Urban Poor in Harare, Zimbabwe

Emerging Perspectives and the Morphing of a Sustainable Urban Future de

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Paru le : 2023-12-09

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This book focuses on the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns on the welfare of the urban poor in the city of Harare, Zimbabwe. The authors look through the lenses of the urban health penalty, the right to the city, complexity theory, and distributive justice theory. These four theories help situate the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the urban poor in the theoretical foundations that raise issues of how the poor are affected by disease/health pandemics, due to their living conditions. Uniquely, the authors use remote ethnography tools such as rich texts, video diaries and photo uploads to provide evidence-based stories of how COVID-19 mobility restrictions have affected poor urbanites in Harare.
The book concludes that the COVID-19 pandemic mandatory lockdowns have deepened social and spatial inequality among the urban poor, threatening their right to the city. The socio-economic impacts can upsurge poverty, increase unemployment and the risks of hunger and food insecurity, reinforce existing inequalities, and break social harmony in the cities, even past the COVID-19 pandemic period. These socioeconomic impacts must be considered to make just cities for all, from a right-to-the-city perspective. The authors recommend that mandatory COVID-19 lockdowns should not only be treated as a law-and-order operation but as a medical intervention to stem the spread of the virus backed by measures to safeguard the livelihoods of the urban poor while also protecting the economy. This means governments should provide social safety nets to informal sector operators whose income-generating activities are affected the most during the time of emergencies like COVID-19. Planners and policymakers should re-envision pandemic-resilient cities that are just, equitable, resilient, and sustainable.
Pages
134 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2023-12-09
Marque
Springer
EAN papier
9783031416682
EAN PDF
9783031416699
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1
Nombre pages imprimables
13
Taille du fichier
8192 Ko
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126,59 €
EAN EPUB
9783031416699
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
1
Nombre pages imprimables
13
Taille du fichier
14828 Ko
Prix
126,59 €

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