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哈拉雷,津巴布韦的封锁与贫民窟中的城市穷人

English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 147 Pages | ISBN : 3031416686 | 22.4 MB

This book focuses on the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns on the welfare of the urban poor in the city of Harare, Zimbabwe. The authors look through the lenses of the urban health penalty, the right to the city, complexity theory, and distributive justice theory. These four theories help situate the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the urban poor in the theoretical foundations that raise issues of how the poor are affected by disease/health pandemics, due to their living conditions. Uniquely, the authors use remote ethnography tools such as rich texts, video diaries and photo uploads to provide evidence-based stories of how COVID-19 mobility restrictions have affected poor urbanites in Harare. The book concludes that the COVID-19 pandemic mandatory lockdowns have deepened social and spatial inequality among the urban poor, threatening their right to the city. The socio-economic impacts can upsurge poverty, increase unemployment and the risks of hunger and food insecurity, reinforce existing inequalities, and break social harmony in the cities, even past the COVID-19 pandemic period. These socioeconomic impacts must be considered to make just cities for all, from a right-to-the-city perspective. The authors recommend that mandatory COVID-19 lockdowns should not only be treated as a law-and-order operation but as a medical intervention to stem the spread of the virus backed by measures to safeguard the livelihoods of the urban poor while also protecting the economy. This means governments should provide social safety nets to informal sector operators whose income-generating activities are affected the most during the time of emergencies like COVID-19. Planners and policymakers should re-envision pandemic-resilient cities that are just, equitable, resilient, and sustainable.


这本书聚焦于COVID-19大流行及其相关的封锁对津巴布韦哈拉雷市贫民的生活福利所造成的社会经济影响。作者们从城市健康惩罚、城市权利、复杂性理论以及分配正义理论等角度进行观察。这四个理论有助于将COVID-19大流行及其对哈拉雷市贫民的影响置于理论基础之上,这些理论涉及如何因生活条件而受疾病/健康大流行影响的穷人。值得一提的是,作者们使用如丰富文字、视频日记和照片上传等远程民族志工具来提供证据支持的故事,以说明COVID-19流动性限制对哈拉雷市贫民的影响。 本书结论认为,COVID-19大流行的强制性封锁措施加深了城市贫民的社交与空间不平等,并威胁到他们的“城市权利”。社会经济影响可能导致贫困加剧、失业率上升以及饥饿和食品不安全的风险增加;强化现有不平等现象,并在大流行过后破坏城市的和谐。这些社会经济影响必须予以考虑,从“城市权利”的视角来构建公正的城市。作者建议强制性COVID-19封锁措施不仅应被视为一种执法操作,还是一种通过措施保护城市贫民生计以遏制病毒蔓延的医疗干预手段。这意味着政府需为在紧急事件如新冠疫情期间受影响最严重的非正式行业从业人员提供社会安全网。规划者和政策制定者应重新构想具备韧性、公正、可持续性和平等的城市以应对大流行后的未来。
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