{"id":4951,"date":"2020-04-09T17:38:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:08:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:08:32","slug":"social-scientists-views-on-covid-19-in-southern-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/blog\/social-scientists-views-on-covid-19-in-southern-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Social scientists\u2019 views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The pandemic which, after other parts of the world, is beginning to hit southern Africa is currently mobilising medical researchers on the front line. However, researchers from human and social sciences have and will have much to say about the social, political, and economic dimensions of the crisis triggered by the expansion of Covid-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

IFAS-Research wishes to highlight these analyses as the crisis unfolds, by providing links to articles published in the press or in academic blogs, and by welcoming analyses produced by researchers from many disciplines. To start with, we have selected four articles written by South African researchers focussing on important issues inevitably raised by the current crisis: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 its impact on the poorest; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 the democratic problems linked to the management of the epidemics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hope to offer a little ‘food for thought\u2019 to analyse what southern African societies are currently going through and to sharpen our critical view of the effects of this health crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regards des sciences humaines et sociales sur le Covid-19 en Afrique australe (1)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

La pand\u00e9mie qui, apr\u00e8s d’autres r\u00e9gions du monde, commence \u00e0 frapper l’Afrique australe mobilise actuellement en premi\u00e8re ligne les chercheurs en m\u00e9decine. Pour autant, les chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales ont et auront beaucoup \u00e0 dire sur les dimensions sociales, politiques, \u00e9conomiques de cette crise d\u00e9clench\u00e9e par l’expansion du Covid-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

L’IFAS-Recherche souhaite mettre en lumi\u00e8re ces analyses au fur et \u00e0 mesure, en proposant des liens vers des articles parus dans la presse ou dans des blogs scientifiques, et en ouvrant le site \u00e0 des analyses produites par des chercheurs issus de nombreuses disciplines de SHS. Pour commencer, nous avons s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 quatre articles r\u00e9dig\u00e9s par des chercheurs sud-africains, et portant sur des questions importantes que ne manque pas de susciter la crise actuelle : <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 celle des cons\u00e9quences sur les populations les plus pauvres en Afrique du Sud ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2014 celle des probl\u00e8mes d\u00e9mocratiques li\u00e9s \u00e0 la gestion de l’\u00e9pid\u00e9mie par les autorit\u00e9s. Nous proposons ainsi un peu de \u00ab grain \u00e0 moudre \u00bb pour analyser ce que les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s d’Afrique australe traversent actuellement et pour aiguiser notre regard critique sur les effets de cette crise sanitaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discover below the first four articles : <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Guy Lamb, “OPINION: Fear and policing in the time of Covid-19”, 3\/04\/2020 onhttps:\/\/www.news24.com\/Columnists\/GuestColumn\/opinion-fear-and-policing-in-the-time-of-covid-19-20200403<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melanie Samson,<\/a>“South Africa\u2019s response to COVID-19 worsens the plight of waste reclaimers”, 1\/04\/2020 on https:\/\/theconversation.com\/south-africas-response-to-covid-19-worsens-the-plight-of-waste-reclaimers-135072?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harriet Etheredge<\/a> ,”COVID-19: how personal versus public freedoms are playing out in South Africa”, 2\/04\/2020 on https:\/\/theconversation.com\/covid-19-how-personal-versus-public-freedoms-are-playing-out-in-south-africa-134571<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imraan Valodia<\/a> and David Francis<\/a>,<\/a> “South Africa needs to mitigate the worst of its inequalities in tackling coronavirus”, le 5\/04\/2020 on https:\/\/theconversation.com\/south-africa-needs-to-mitigate-the-worst-of-its-inequalities-in-tackling-coronavirus-135564?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1586095390<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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The pandemic which, after other parts of the world, is beginning to hit southern Africa is currently mobilising medical researchers on the front line. However, researchers from human and social sciences have and will have much to say about the social, political, and economic dimensions of the crisis triggered by the expansion of Covid-19. IFAS-Research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-social-scientists-views-on-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4951"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4983,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions\/4983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}