Category: Social scientists’ views on Covid-19
Documentary film: “What am I going to eat tomorrow?” The impact of the 2020 pandemic on informal workers in Johannesburg
As part of its scientific and academic vocation, and in the context of the health crisis linked to the coronavirus, IFAS-Research has launched a collective research project with the aim of understanding the effects of the 2020 pandemic on informal workers in South Africa. To this end, in June 2020,...
Informality in Times of Covid-19 – The Impact of the 2020 Pandemic on Vulnerable Workers in South Africa
Journée d’étude/ Seminar November 19th, 2020 13:30 – 17:00 On the 19th of November, the French Institute will organise a seminar as part of the “Informality and Covid-19 in South Africa” project launched a few months ago by IFAS-Research. The main results of this research will be presented and discussed....
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (17)
A few weeks ago, during the Southern African Cities Studies Conference 2020, a panel organised by Alexandra Halligey (South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Witwatersrand) and Kristen Kornienko (Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (16)
Encounters with Covid Exploring the theme of the pandemic through a series of podcasts and platforming experts’ and social scientists’ insights on the economic impact of Covid-19 in South Africa, this miniseries of 3 episodes is a collaborative project between Wits University Southern Center for Inequalities Studies (SCIS) and Rethinking...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (15)
African views on Covid-19. Call for papers (Deadline: July 20, 2020) African Views on Covid-19 is a title of a project book that aims to document the ways Africans have faced, or are still facing, the current health crisis, from the perspective of humanities and social sciences. This collective, multidisciplinary, bilingual...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (14)
A number of pandemics and epidemics have afflicted the African continent for centuries. Health historians have researched these issues belonging to the field of social and economic history. We have selected two papers focusing on the history of the plague in West Africa from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (13)
Africa, a relatively unscathed continent? While it is of course too early to celebrate victory, several researchers see signs of hope in the relatively low progression of the coronavirus on the African continent and, for those most affected such as South Africa, in the capacity to manage the health crisis...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (12)
Lockdown and food insecurity in South Africa This article by Jane Battersby highlights a crucial issue in times of lockdown: food supply. While the government has put in place relief measures to secure access to food for the most deprived (e. g. food distributions), the lockdown regulations have of course...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (11)
Poverty and pandemic in South Africa Economists have begun to evaluate the economic consequences of Covid-19 already present in South Africa, and to analyse those that will be most likely in the near future. Although it is still early, in the midst of the crisis, to assess how the situation...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (10)
We would like to draw your attention to this site, which brings together a wide range of helpful ressources, articles, and forums on Covid-19 in Africa: University World News An interesting contribution on the role of social sciences in solving the crisis can be found here.