M022: The Covid -19 Pandemic in Asia-Part 1

Organizer(s)

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  Hy Luong

  University of Toronto, Canada

Chair(s)

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  Hy Luong

  University of Toronto, Canada

Paper Presenter(s)

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  Hy Luong

  University of Toronto, Canada
• SL

  Shao-Hua Liu

  Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• AD

  Alexis Dudden

  University of Connecticut, United States
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  Yasushi Katsuma

  Waseda University, Japan

Discussant(s)

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  Jenna Grant

  University of Washington, United States

Session Abstract: The back-to-back sessions examine how historical backgrounds, contemporary discourses, cultural practices, and government strategies have shaped the Covid-19 pandemic in East, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as their social and political implications for the countries under focus. Session 1 focuses more on the socio-cultural dimensions of the pandemic, while Session 2 examines in greater depth its political dimension.

Presentations:

• Vietnam's War against Covid-19
  

  Paper Presenter: Hy Luong – University of Toronto
• Shaping a Common Moral Enterprise: Governance and Its Discourses about COVID-19 in Taiwan
  

  Paper Presenter: Shao-Hua Liu – Academia Sinica
• Masks, Science, and Foreigner-Baiting: Japan’s During COVID’s First Wave
  

  Paper Presenter: Alexis Dudden – University of Connecticut
• Political Economy of Health Technologies, including Vaccines, in the Battle against COVID-19
  

  Paper Presenter: Yasushi Katsuma – Waseda University