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Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa

- Culture, Healthcare and the State
Af: Nelly Sharpley, Leslie Bank Engelsk Paperback

Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa

- Culture, Healthcare and the State
Af: Nelly Sharpley, Leslie Bank Engelsk Paperback
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This book explores the impact of Covid-19, and the associated state lockdown, on rural lives in a former homeland in South Africa. The 2020 Disaster Management Act saw the state sweep through rural areas, targeting funerals and other customary practices as potential ''super-spreader'' events. This unprecedented clampdown produced widespread disruption, fear and anxiety. The authors build on path-breaking work concerning local responses to West Africa''s Ebola epidemic, and examine the HIV/AIDS pandemic, to understand the impact of the Covid crisis on these communities, and on rural Africa more broadly.To shed light on the role of custom and ritual in rural social change during the pandemic, Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa applies long-term historical and ethnographic research; theories of people''s science, local knowledge and the human economy; and fieldwork conducted in ten rural South African communities during lockdown. The volume highlights differences between developments in Southern Africa and elsewhere on the continent, while exploring how the former apartheid homelands-commonly, yet problematically, represented as former ''labour reserves''-have since been reconstituted as new home-spaces. In short, it explains why rural people have been so angered by the state''s assault on their cultural practices and institutions in the time of Covid.
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This book explores the impact of Covid-19, and the associated state lockdown, on rural lives in a former homeland in South Africa. The 2020 Disaster Management Act saw the state sweep through rural areas, targeting funerals and other customary practices as potential ''super-spreader'' events. This unprecedented clampdown produced widespread disruption, fear and anxiety. The authors build on path-breaking work concerning local responses to West Africa''s Ebola epidemic, and examine the HIV/AIDS pandemic, to understand the impact of the Covid crisis on these communities, and on rural Africa more broadly.To shed light on the role of custom and ritual in rural social change during the pandemic, Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa applies long-term historical and ethnographic research; theories of people''s science, local knowledge and the human economy; and fieldwork conducted in ten rural South African communities during lockdown. The volume highlights differences between developments in Southern Africa and elsewhere on the continent, while exploring how the former apartheid homelands-commonly, yet problematically, represented as former ''labour reserves''-have since been reconstituted as new home-spaces. In short, it explains why rural people have been so angered by the state''s assault on their cultural practices and institutions in the time of Covid.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9781787385733
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1787385736
Kategori: Folkesundhedsvidenskab
Udg. Dato: 2 jun 2022
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 215mm
Højde: 141mm
Forlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 2 jun 2022
Forfatter(e): Nelly Sharpley, Leslie Bank
Forfatter(e) Nelly Sharpley, Leslie Bank

Kategori Folkesundhedsvidenskab

ISBN-13 9781787385733

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 320

Udgave

Længde 26mm

Bredde 215mm

Højde 141mm

Udg. Dato 2 jun 2022

Oplagsdato 2 jun 2022

Forlag C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd