Necropolitics at large: pandemic politics and the coloniality of the global access gap

Neoliberal disease: COVID-19, co-pathogenesis and global health insecurities

“…These aggressive interactions are all interconnected with the pro-market plans and policies that critics categorize under the umbrella category of "neoliberalism". It is a term we use here with awareness of the need to consider the co-determination of pandemic vulnerabilities by other intersecting forces such as structural racism and colonialism that cannot be reduced to neoliberal political-economy (Montenegro de Wit, 2021;Sumba, 2021). It is also a term that we take-up with sensitivity to the many divergences of market-rule from the far more singular rule-sets idealized by neoliberal intellectuals as the free market basis for a wealth-generating world order (Peck, 2010).…”

Global inequities in access to COVID-19 health products and technologies: A political economy analysis

“…The callousness of HICs in the face of the “fatal implications of global inequality” – the tacit acceptance of preventable death on a large scale – has been described by Sumba (2021 , p. 48) as “necropolitics at large”, while these dynamics have also been understood in terms of “vaccine apartheid” and “structural violence” for privileging the lives of those in the global North over the global South ( Sparke and Levy, 2022 ; Harman et al, 2021 ; Hassan et al, 2021 ).…”

“…Violence, here, refers to the more “invisible, indirect and insidious” forms of harm caused by systemic poverty, power asymmetries and neglect, which ultimately lead to reduced life chances for many of the world's poor ( Hamed et al, 2020 , p. 1663). Given the colonial and racialised lines along which this structural violence plays out, this in turn reveals a form of necropolitics, in which elites of the Global North tend to hold the power to determine who lives and who dies ( Mbembe, 2019 ; Sumba, 2021 ). Made explicit through the framework, these underlying theories lay bare how health inequities – whether in relation to global extraction or COVID-19 health products and technologies – tend to be well-trodden grooves within the political economy.…”

Dekolonialisierung des Wissens

“…: Aden & Aden, 2021;Afeworki Abay & Schmitt, 2022) aber auch über die dramatischen Auswirkungen von COVID-19 im globalen Süden (u.a. : Afeworki Abay, 2020; Afeworki Suh et al, 2022;Sumba, 2021). So wird die grundlegende Tatsache außer Acht gelassen, dass die gegenwärtigen Strukturen globaler Ungleichheiten im »rassifizierten Kapitalismus« 42 (El-Tayeb, 2016, S. 17) eingebettet sind, der zunehmend in Bezug auf post-und neokoloniale Kontext Hierarchien analysiert wird.…”