1st Edition

Rights at Stake and the COVID-19 Pandemic Two Special Issues of the Journal of Human Rights

Edited By Shareen Hertel, Catherine Buerger Copyright 2023
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life across the world, placing people at risk as our responses to it alter not only health and wellbeing but also governance, economies, social relations, and our interaction with the natural environment. This volume draws globally recognized human rights scholars and practitioners into dialogue over the costs and consequences of the pandemic. With insights and... Read more

Part 1: Early Views and Analysis of the Pandemic

Introduction—Human rights in the time of COVID-19

Shareen Hertel, Catherine Buerger, and Benjamin Carbonetti

Centering Rights-Based Theory and Praxis

1. Revisiting interdependence in times and terms of crisis

Michael Goodhart

2. A forecasted failure: Intersectionality, COVID-19, and the perfect storm

Kimberly Theidon

3. Solidarity in times of crisis

Kathryn Libal and Prakash Kashwan

Re-examining Health

4. Global health and human rights in the time of COVID-19: Response, restrictions, legitimacy

Lisa Forman and Jillian Clare Kohler

5. Human rights obligations of drug companies

Michael Santoro and Robert Shanklin

6. What COVID-19 revealed about health, human rights, and the WHO

Wendy H. Wong and Eileen A. Wong

Contesting Power and Control

7. Legal empowerment approaches in the context of COVID-19

Sukti Dhital and Tyler Walton

8. Freedom of movement, migration, and borders

Jaya Ramji-Nogales and Iris Goldner Lang

9. State surveillance and the COVID-19 crisis

Kristine Eck and Sophia Hatz

10. Hazardous confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic: The fate of migrants detained yet nondeportable

Didier Fassin

Part II: Ongoing Debates

Introduction—Beyond complacency and acrimony: Studying human rights in a post-COVID-19 world

Giacomo Chiozza and Jeffrey King

11. The state of human rights in a (post) COVID-19 world

Giacomo Chiozza and Jeffrey King

Windows of Opportunity to Worsen Human Rights

12. Can nonviolent resistance survive COVID-19?

Erica Chenoweth

13. The COVID-19 pandemic and authoritarian consolidation in North Africa

Sammy Z. Badran and Brian Turnbull

Fighting COVID-19, Maintain Human Rights: Challenges and Tradeoffs

14. Pandemic patriarchy: The impact of a global health crisis on women’s rights

Alison Brysk

15. The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights practices: Findings from the Human Rights Measurement Initiative’s 2021 Practitioner Survey

K. Chad Clay, Mennah Abdelwahab, Stephen Bagwell, Morgan Barney,Eduardo Burkle, Tori Hawley, Thalia Kehoe Rowden, Meridith LaVelle, Asia Parker, and Matthew Rains

16. Global perceptions of South Korea’s COVID-19 policy responses: Topic modeling with tweets

Jeong-Woo Koo

Lessons Learned for the Future

17. Hindsight is 2020: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for future human rights research

Amanda Murdie

Biography

Shareen Hertel is Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, USA, jointly appointed with the UConn Human Rights Institute. She is Editor of The Journal of Human Rights and has worked with United Nations agencies, foundations, and nongovernmental organizations in the United States, Latin America, and South Asia.

Catherine Buerger is the Director of Research at the Dangerous Speech Project (DSP). She is the Managing Editor of The Journal of Human Rights and has published widely in academic and policy outlets. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut.