Post-pandemic transformations: How and why COVID-19 requires us to rethink development

COVID-19 is proving to be the long awaited 'big one': a pandemic capable of bringing societies and economies to their knees. There is an urgent need to examine how COVID-19 - as a health and development crisis - unfolded the way it did it and to consider possibilities for post-pandemic transformations and for rethinking development more broadly. Drawing on over a decade of research on epidemics, we argue that the origins, unfolding and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic require analysis that addresses both structural political-economic conditions alongside far less ordered, 'unruly' processes reflecting complexity, uncertainty, contingency and context-specificity. This structural-unruly duality in the conditions…

• WT
  Wellcome Trust
• EA
  Economic and Social Research Council

  Awards: ES/R008884/1, ES/R000158/1, ES/I021620/1
• ER
  European Research Council