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Hawksley and Georgeou bring together scholars and practitioners
from across the region to analyse the main effects of the first two
years of the COVID pandemic in a range of case studies from
Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia and Oceania. The book
provides a broad survey of how Indonesia, Bangladesh, Japan, the
Philippines, Vietnam, Nepal, Australia, Cambodia, Taiwan and New
Zealand attempted to manage the COVID pandemic, the challenges they
faced and how they fared. Drawing on insights from politics,
economics, sociology, law, public health, education and geography,
most authors are nationals of the cases they discuss. Written in
non-specialist language, ten case studies are examined, providing a
useful analysis of the first two years of COVID in the Asia-Pacific
from the emergence of COVID in January 2020 to the lifting of
restrictions in December 2021. Chapters focus on different issues
according to the scholar’s academic expertise, and a wide
diversity of national pandemic experiences, challenges and
responses are showcased. An essential read for scholars and
students interested in the areas of Asia-Pacific politics,
sociology and public health.
This work comes at an important time of global crisis and change,
where the world is ravaged by natural disasters, wars and poverty.
This has increased the pressure on governments and other
organisations, such as volunteer sending agencies, which provide
aid, and we have seen an upward trend in the number of people
volunteering abroad. Within this volatile environment, neoliberal
ideology on how aid should be provided and implemented has become
embedded in how policy is formulated. A market-driven model of aid
provision has become the norm, and governments are increasingly
focused on international development volunteering as a form of
'soft diplomacy'. This is the first qualitative empirical study of
international development volunteering. The book contributes
theoretical knowledge on International Volunteering Sending
Agencies (IVSAs) and examines practitioner experience in
development volunteering in the context of emerging policy
developments. Critical analysis highlights the impact of global and
social changes and provides a nuanced understanding of development
volunteer motivation, and the relationship between volunteers and
sending agencies. The book also puts forward an agenda and model
for volunteer sending that addresses the complexities and diversity
of the volunteer experience.
This work comes at an important time of global crisis and change,
where the world is ravaged by natural disasters, wars and poverty.
This has increased the pressure on governments and other
organisations, such as volunteer sending agencies, which provide
aid, and we have seen an upward trend in the number of people
volunteering abroad. Within this volatile environment, neoliberal
ideology on how aid should be provided and implemented has become
embedded in how policy is formulated. A market-driven model of aid
provision has become the norm, and governments are increasingly
focused on international development volunteering as a form of
'soft diplomacy'. This is the first qualitative empirical study of
international development volunteering. The book contributes
theoretical knowledge on International Volunteering Sending
Agencies (IVSAs) and examines practitioner experience in
development volunteering in the context of emerging policy
developments. Critical analysis highlights the impact of global and
social changes and provides a nuanced understanding of development
volunteer motivation, and the relationship between volunteers and
sending agencies. The book also puts forward an agenda and model
for volunteer sending that addresses the complexities and diversity
of the volunteer experience.
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