The MENA region and COVID-19: impact, implications and prospects
Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which comprises some of the world's richest countries next to some of the poorest, this book offers excellent insights into the discriminatory consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a geographic focus on the MENA region, the multi...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY
Routledge
2022
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| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Series: | Routledge studies in Middle Eastern society
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003240044 |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003240044 Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003240044 
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| Author Notes: | edited by Zeina Hobaika, Lena-Maria Möller, and Jan Claudius Völkel |
| Summary: | Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which comprises some of the world's richest countries next to some of the poorest, this book offers excellent insights into the discriminatory consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a geographic focus on the MENA region, the multidisciplinary case studies collected in this edited volume reveal that the coronavirus's impact patterns are a question of two variables: governance performance and socioeconomic potency. Given the global, unprecedented, complex, and systemic nature of COVID-19- and its long-term implications for societies, governments, international organisations, citizens and corporations - this volume entails a relevance to regions undergoing similar dynamics. Analyses in the book, therefore, have implications for the comparative study of the pandemic and its impact on societies around the globe. Understanding related dynamics and implications, and making use of lessons learned, are a pathway to deal with future similar crises. Questions covered in the volume are relevant to geopolitics, social implications and the relations between political leaders and citizens as beings embedded in various strategies of communication. The volume will appeal to scholars of international politics, political science, risk or crisis governance, economics and sociology, human rights and security, political communication and public health. "The region commonly referred to as Middle East and North Africa (MENA), comprising some of the world's richest countries next to some of the world's poorest, offers excellent insights into the discriminatory consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. While in its early stage, the coronavirus was said to not discriminate between rich and poor concerning its infectiousness, its consequences differ markedly: financially sound societies can afford economic shutdowns, yet citizens in less affluent countries lack the opportunity of not going to work - if they even have the "luxury" of seeing a doctor. Similarly, keeping kids out of school for months can be compensated for (at least partly) through excellent learning conditions at home, but children from families with less resources usually lack the equipment necessary. The multidisciplinary case studies collected in this edited volume reveal that the coronavirus's impact patterns are to a large extent a question of two variables: governance performance and socioeconomic potency. Therefore, while its geographic focus is on the MENA region, the book's analyses go far beyond and have implications for the comparative study of the COVID-19 pandemic and its broad impact on societies around the globe"-- |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 1003240046 9781003240044 9781000614671 1000614670 9781000614626 100061462X |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003240044 |