Overview
- Examines the effect of COVID-19 on governance, the economy and health policy
- Takes an intersectional approach, considering gender, race, and class when considering the impact of COVID-19
- Serves as a companion to COVID-19 and the Caribbean, Volume Two: Society, Gender, Education & Technology
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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State Responses and the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Navigating COVID-19: Economic Development Issues in the Caribbean
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Tourism and Hospitality Perspectives on COVID-19
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sherma Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Director (Ag.) School for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She previously held the position of Deputy Dean Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences and was honoured to serve as the first Chairman of the Tobago Tourism Agency Limited 2017-2022. Sherma has co-edited 4 books, is the lead author of Contemporary Caribbean Tourism: Concepts and Cases and researches and publishes in the area of sustainable tourism, community participation, island tourism and tourism entrepreneurship.
Wendy C. Grenade is a Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, St. George’s University, Grenada. She is a political scientist who specializes in International Relations and Comparative Politics. Professor Grenade critically interrogates topics such as regionalism, democracy, governance and security. Her publications include over twenty peer-reviewed articles and an edited volume - The Grenada Revolution: Reflections and Lessons, which was published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2015.
Dwayne Devonish is Professor of Management and Organisational Behaviour in the Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management at the University of the WestIndies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. His main research interests include organisational behaviour and psychology, work-related stress, health and wellness, human resource management, and strategic planning. In 2019, Professor Devonish was the lead author of the National Workplace Wellness Policy for Barbados which sought to inform the practice of workplace wellness programming across organisations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Covid-19 and the Caribbean, Volume 1
Book Subtitle: The State, Economy and Health
Editors: Sherma Roberts, Halimah A. F. DeShong, Wendy C. Grenade, Dwayne Devonish
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30889-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30888-8Published: 13 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30891-8Published: 14 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30889-5Published: 12 August 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLIV, 567
Topics: Sociology, general, Latin American and Caribbean Economics, Governance and Government, Political Sociology