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COVID-19: A turning point to further sanitation justice?

Allen, A; Hofmann, P; Leblond, N; (2021) COVID-19: A turning point to further sanitation justice? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Sanitation has received increased attention during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the heterogeneity of infrastructures, investments, practices and needs that exist on the ground, have often been overlooked. Consequently, the intersecting inequalities shaping how COVID-19 and sanitation interact remain unaddressed. This paper suggests it is possible to move beyond ‘deficit narratives’, and to support pathways towards just sanitation for all women and men, girls and boys during and beyond the pandemic. Tracking down past, ongoing and projected sanitary arrangements, exploring the political economy of both grid and off-grid investments and promises, and paying attention to the diversity of needs and practices from an intersectional perspective that considers, among other things, class, gender, age, ethnicity and ability, are three directions to do so. Together, these three directions can account for how illness or health, poverty or prosperity, suffering or well-being, stigma or respect are generated for different people who are dependent on, or who are providing, sanitation services. COVID-19 marks a turning point to critically reframe how we talk and act upon just sanitation and to challenge long-term inequalities.

Type: Article
Title: COVID-19: A turning point to further sanitation justice?
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://journals.hw.ac.uk/index.php/IPED/article/vi...
Language: English
Additional information: © 2021 The Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: gendered sanitation trajectories; urban Africa; Intersectionality; wastewater; epidemiology; COVID-19
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10126033
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