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Research paper
The Allure of Scapegoating Return Migrants during a Pandemic
The stigmatization of Senegalese return migrants as COVID-19 vectors by fellow Senegalese during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic troubles the self/other distinction that underpins the scholarly focus on epidemics and xenophobia and encourages the broader task of exploring…
Research paper
Youths’ violent resistance of necropolitical landscape of COVID-19 in Nigeria’s vanishing foodscapes and waterscapes
This article interrogates the necropolitical landscape of COVID-19 in Nigeria. The article explores how the landscape emerges at the intersection of COVID-19 regime and structural violence and materializes in foodscapes and waterscapes of the country. These changes ultimately impose the…
Report
Palestine – The political economy of Gaza – responding to economic vulnerability, 28 September 2021
A thematic report of the political economy of Gaza, involving the analysis of stakeholders, power relations, and social conflict across time and space.
Report
The political economy of health in the Gaza Strip (Occupied Palestinian Territory)
This document presents the results of a political economy analysis of the health sector in Gaza, based on a wide-ranging literature review and in-depth semi-structured interviews with policymakers, health officials and carers.
Research paper
The anthropological rise of Palestine
This article traces the rise of anthropological scholarship on Palestine and/or Palestinians from 2011, providing a comprehensive bibliography of anthropological publications related to Palestine over that period.
Briefing
Media and Local Messages on Ebola in the Grand Nord, DRC
An overview of key messages circulating on WhatsApp and in the local media in the Grand Nord in November-December 2018
Briefing
Behavioural Data Compilation #5 fr
A rapid compilation of data analyses for September-November 2019 in the context of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
Briefing
Social Dimensions of the novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Outbreak and Response: Meeting Report
Report from a roundtable meeting at the Wellcome Trust, London, 3rd February 2020.
Briefing
Quarantine in the Context of COVID-19 zhfr
Key considerations relating to the design and impact of measures that restrict human movement patterns.
Briefing
Online Information, Mis- and Disinformation in the Context of COVID-19 zhfr
Practical considerations relating to flows of information, misinformation and disinformation though online media, particularly social media networks.
Briefing
Key Considerations: COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements zhfrptes
Key considerations for protecting informal urban settlements from the spread and impacts of COVID-19.
Briefing
The Psychological Needs of Healthcare Staff as a Result of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Considerations for the wellbeing needs of all healthcare staff (clinical and non-clinical)
Podcast: The Social Dynamics of Pandemics
The global pandemic Covid-19 is impacting people in many and varied ways. The effects on all our lives are immense and diverse, from rural and urban communities, young and old, from different geographic and economic groups, we are each living…
Briefing
Do You Speak COVID-19?
Millions of marginalised people lack basic information about how to keep themselves and their communities safe and well.
Briefing
Tools
Taking a psychosocial approach to epidemic response fr
This Practical Approaches brief highlights key considerations for taking a psychosocial approach to working in the context of an epidemic.
Briefing
Tools
Assessing key considerations for burial practices, death and mourning in epidemics fres
This Practical Approaches brief looks the considerations for rapidly appraising burial/funerary practices and beliefs around death/dying during an epidemic.
Briefing
Compliance with Physical Distancing Measures for COVID-19 and Implications for RCCE in Eastern and Southern Africa fr
Practical considerations for communication strategies and messaging on physical distancing.
Case study
People, Poultry and Pandemics: Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Indonesia fr
This SSHAP Case Study illustrates how the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) worked in 2006-07 to support the Indonesian government in response to avian influenza outbreaks. The agency provided social mobilisation and education programmes to schools and villages in affected…
Briefing
Incorporating Non-Expert Evidence into Surveillance and Early Detection of Public Health Emergencies fr
‘Big data’ has promised significant improvements for the global surveillance of infectious disease. This SSHAP Case Study highlights how, over the past two decades, new disease surveillance practices built on amassing and processing large data sets – analysed computationally to…
Comment
Novelty and uncertainty: Social science contributions to a response to COVID-19
This comment argues that political questions around discourses of preparedness and response need to enter the debate about current and future responses to uncertain and alarming scenarios of novel emergence.
Briefing
Echoes of Ebola: Social and Political Warnings for the COVID-19 Response in African Settings
Recent years have seen major global investment in epidemic preparedness and response. The World Health Organization’s new guidelines for health emergency preparedness (WHO 2017), extending the ambit of the 2005 International Health Regulations, have accompanied growing commitments to centralised planning,…
Briefing
Sentinels and Whistleblowers: Lessons from Wuhan
When the media asked me how the Chinese government was handling the crisis of COVID-19, I offered them a distinction which comes from the social sciences: the Wuhan authorities acted well as sentinels but failed to act as whistleblowers. Indeed,…
Briefing
Shame and Complicity in the Reactions to the Coronavirus
The death of Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang on 7 February 2020 was a turning point in public reactions to the government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak. The doctor had warned about the new virus, but was silenced and punished, because…
Briefing
Dying, Bereavement and Mortuary and Funerary Practices in the Context of COVID-19 fr
Key considerations for events related to death, burial, funerals (rites, ceremonies and practices) and mourning.
Comment
COVID-19 Forum
A collection bringing together seventeen anthropologists and historians in an effort to share ideas, analytical frameworks and concerns about the ongoing epidemic from interdisciplinary perspectives.
Field notes
“Hunger will kill us before the coronavirus does!”
Africa is particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus and the effects of restrictions.
Briefing
COVID-19: Why Are Prisons at Particular Risk, and What Can Be Done to Mitigate This? fr
Particular risks associated with an outbreak in prisons in low-and middle-income countries and suggestions of some approaches that may be used to mitigate risks.
Briefing
Risks Related to Population Movement and Gatherings During Ramadan
Key considerations in relation to COVID-19 during the holy month of Ramadan on the continent of Africa.
Briefing
Considerations and Principles for Shielding People at High Risk of Severe Outcomes from COVID-19 fr
Including proposed approaches to shielding, who may be included in shielding groups, as well as the likely difficulties of these measures, and ways to mitigate them.
Briefing
COVID-19 in the Context of Conflict and Displacement – Myanmar
Key considerations focusing on how conflict, displacement and inter-communal tensions may influence disease control in Myanmar.
Briefing
COVID-19 Management in Marginalised Populations in Southeast Asia
Key considerations focusing on transnational migrants, informal workers, and people living in informal settlements.
Briefing
Social Sciences Evidence on Barriers to Healthcare Seeking During the DRC Ebola Outbreak
This brief was developed for actors working “on the ground” in humanitarian response programmes. It focuses on the importance, reasons and recommendations for minimising barriers to healthcare seeking in outbreak settings based on social sciences evidence from CASS studies undertaken during the Ebola…
Briefing
Humanitarian Programme Recommendations for COVID-19 Based on Social Sciences Evidence from the DRC Ebola Outbreak Response
This brief was developed for actors working “on the ground” in outbreak response in humanitarian programmes and contexts. It addresses recurrent programme recommendations, including strategies, interventions and activities, which resulted from social sciences analyses conducted by the CASS during the…
Briefing
Gender Inclusiveness in COVID-19 Humanitarian Response Operations, Evidence from Social Sciences Outbreak Research
This brief was developed for actors working “on the ground” in outbreak response in humanitarian programmes and contexts. It focuses on the importance, reasons and recommendations for how to ensure gender inclusivity in outbreak response, based on evidence and lessons…
Briefing
What social sciences researchers working in humanitarian contexts (sub-Saharan Africa) should be asking in COVID-19 and why
A summary of suggested key social science research questions and their rationale to support and inform operational field research and response programming in sub-Saharan Africa.
Briefing
Interim Guidance on Public Health and Social Measures for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Operations in Low Capacity and Humanitarian Settings
This Interim Guidance outlines how key public health and social measures needed to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread and the impact of the disease can be adapted for use in low capacity and humanitarian settings. The recommendations outlined here…
