AO: Kihato and Landau discuss in this paper how the pandemic exposes and entrenches broader structural inequities especially in the urban African city. They argue that policy edicts like social distancing, hand washing, lock-downs, curfews and policing further entrench structural injustices.
Source
Kihato, C. W., & Landau, L. B. (2020). Coercion or the social contract? COVID 19 and spatial (in)justice in African cities. City & Society, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12265
Caroline Kihato and Loren Landau, "Kihato, C. W., & Landau, L. B. (2020). Coercion or the social contract? COVID 19 and spatial (in)justice in African cities. City & Society, 32(1).", contributed by Angela Okune, Research Data Share, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 26 May 2020, accessed 26 April 2024. https://www.researchdatashare.org/content/kihato-c-w-landau-l-b-2020-coercion-or-social-contract-covid-19-and-spatial-injustice
Critical Commentary
AO: Kihato and Landau discuss in this paper how the pandemic exposes and entrenches broader structural inequities especially in the urban African city. They argue that policy edicts like social distancing, hand washing, lock-downs, curfews and policing further entrench structural injustices.