Constructing an “infrastructure of care” – understanding the institutional remnants and socio-technical practices that constitute South Africa’s Covid-19 response

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11669331
AutoresNancy Odendaal (0000-0003-0706-1247, University of Cape Town, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume42
Fascículo3
Páginas391-398
Data de publicação2020-10-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoUrban Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02723638.2020.1807166
OpenAlexW3092192730
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas11

The WHO recently praised the South African state's urgent response to the Covid-19 crisis. It has promoted ascience-led response coupled with financial mechanisms to offset economic hardship. The decisive approach taken by the state, however, contradicts the heterogeneity of livelihoods that define the functioning of its socio-economic fringes. This paper focuses on acommunity-led initiative, connecting neighborhoods through relations of care. Focusing on this third mode of existence gives insight into the limited reach and efficacy of the data strategies, policies and legislative adaptations that make up the first mode: the state-led response to the pandemic. It also reveals the interrelationships between all three modes, that could potentially contribute to an "infrastructure of care", illustrating the diversity yet contextual embeddedness of the elements of progressive socio-technical change

Agriculture · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Embeddedness · Geography · Legislature · Livelihood · Pandemic · Political science · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Medicine · Urban and Rural Development Challenges