Pandemic, States and Societies in the Asia-Pacific, 2020-2021

Responding to COVID
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-31821-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 534 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies on the Asia-Pacific Region

Hawksley and Georgeou bring together scholars and practitioners from across the region to analyse the main effects of the first two years of the COVID pandemic in a range of case studies from Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and Oceania.

The book provides a broad survey of how Indonesia, Bangladesh, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Nepal, Australia, Cambodia, Taiwan, and New Zealand attempted to manage the COVID pandemic; the challenges they faced; and how they fared. Drawing on insights from politics, economics, sociology, law, public health, education, and geography, most authors are nationals of the cases they discuss. Written in non-specialist language, ten case studies are examined, providing a useful analysis of the first two years of COVID in the Asia-Pacific from the emergence of COVID in January 2020 to the lifting of restrictions in December 2021. Chapters focus on different issues according to the scholar’s academic expertise, and a wide diversity of national pandemic experiences, challenges, and responses are showcased.

An essential read for scholars and students interested in the areas of Asia-Pacific politics, sociology, and public health.

Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawksley, Charles

Georgeou, Nichole

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Pandemic, States and Societies in the Asia-Pacific 2020–2021: Responding to COVID

Charles Hawksley

Nichole Georgeou

Chapter 2 Indonesia’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic: from herbal cure-alls to a science-based response

Yohana Susana Yembise
Rob Goodfellow

Chapter 3 Pandemic, migrant workers and the economy of Bangladesh

Mamta B. Chowdhury

Chapter 4 Japan: Moralised politics in countering COVID-19

Yukiko Nishikawa

Chapter 5 Making sense of the behavioral restrictions and institutional controls: the Philippine COVID-19 experience

Leslie A. Lopez

Jessica Sandra R. Claudio

Dennis B. Batangan

Joselito T. Sescon,

Haraya Marikit C. Mendoza

Chapter 6 Vietnam: COVID-19 in Vietnam

Toan Dang

Chapter 7 Nepal: pandemic and unusual state response

Uddhab Pyakurel

Supriya Gurung

Chapter 8 Australia and COVID 19: Cracks in the Commonwealth

Charles Hawksley

Nichole Georgeou

Chapter 9 Taiwan: how COVID-19 sharpens Taiwanese identity

Tse-Min HUNG

Chapter 10 Cambodia: the thin line between development and human rights during
COVID-19

Natalia Szablewska

Muy Seo Ngouv

Ratana Ly



Chapter 11 Aotearoa New Zealand: is the grass really greener here? Social, political and cultural implications of COVID-19 in New Zealand

Christina Ergler

Nichole Georgeou

Sarah Lovell

Bob Huish

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Hawksley is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia. Charles holds a PhD in politics from UOW. His research on the politics of the Asia-Pacific has appeared in Third World Quarterly, Rethinking Marxism, and Global Change Peace and Security.

Nichole Georgeou is Associate Professor in Humanitarian and Development Studies at Western Sydney University, Australia. Nichole holds a PhD and an MA (Research) from UOW in development sociology. She is the author of Neoliberalism, Development and Aid Volunteering (Routledge) among many other publications.