{"id":5126,"date":"2020-05-12T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:07:33","slug":"social-scientists-views-on-covid-19-in-southern-africa-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/uncategorized\/social-scientists-views-on-covid-19-in-southern-africa-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Social scientists\u2019 views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (9)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"654\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ebola--654x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ebola--654x1024.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ebola--192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ebola--768x1202.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ebola-.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><figcaption>Paul Richard,&nbsp;<em>Ebola<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>How a people\u2019s science helped end an epidemic<\/em>, Chicago University Press, 2016 : <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/E\/bo25073163.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/E\/bo25073163.html<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>How a People\u2019s Science Helped End an Epidemic&nbsp;<\/em>is the title of a recent book dedicated to the role played by social scientists in the fight against the last great epidemic in Africa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leslie Bank,<\/strong> a professor of social anthropology at Walter Sisulu University (Mthatha, South Africa), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityworldnews.com\/post.php?story=20200429151310413\">supports the idea that social sciences are an important tool to tackle the current Covid-19 epidemic.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, an in-depth knowledge of social and anthropological realities\u00a0enables to go far beyond the \u00ab\u00a0one-size-fits-all\u00a0\u00bb strategy adopted by the government in South Africa since the beginning of the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a People\u2019s Science Helped End an Epidemic&nbsp;is the title of a recent book dedicated to the role played by social scientists in the fight against the last great epidemic in Africa.&nbsp; Leslie Bank, a professor of social anthropology at Walter Sisulu University (Mthatha, South Africa), supports the idea that social sciences are an important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-social-scientists-views-on-covid-19","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126","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=5126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5131,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions\/5131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}