Selv om Covid-19 ennå ikke har fått ordentlig tak i Sør-Asia vil konsekvensene bli store, viser en ny rapport fra Verdensbanken. I India ser krisen ut til å avdekke et land fortsatt preget av fattigdom og mangelfullt helsevesen.
The dream of a terra nullius, a place imagined as outside of societal constraints, law, and history has existed since the middle ages. But romanticizing the notion of a natural frontier can have deadly consequences for indigenous people.
'Critical junctures' are the scandals, crises or conflicts that can throw the status quo and power relations into the air, opening the door to previously unthinkable reforms. In Plagues and the Paradox of Progress, Thomas Bolloky argues that such events include health shocks: 'Encounters with infectious disease have played a key role in the evolution of cities, the expansion of trade routes, the conduct of war and participation in pilgrimages'.
The global proliferation of extraction and plantation economies continue to shape profoundly unequal exchanges of resources and labor and wreak havoc on rural economies, ecologies, and social relations. Yet, people at the receiving end of these transformations are not without agency.
The links between food production and zoonotic diseases, and the global spread of such diseases are shaped by complex social, political and economic relationships that cannot be fixed by simply closing down wet markets.
