{"product_id":"9783593518978-monitoring-pandemic-preparedness","title":"Monitoring Pandemic Preparedness","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGlobal Health Security’s Politics of Accountability, Development, and Infrastructure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow well are countries prepared for the next pandemic? And how to measure and evaluate pandemic preparedness?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this book, Carolin Mezes examines how the practice of pandemic preparedness monitoring has become an important feature of global health security governance—and how the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed its failure. By way of document analysis and an ethnographic case study of the Joint External Evaluations, her study considers the well-rehearsed critique that preparedness monitoring cannot predict pandemic response performance and appears as a hollow paperwork exercise of box-ticking. An analysis of the media-technologies of preparedness monitoring gives nuance to these critiques and allows us to understand how preparedness monitoring gets caught up in the (contradictive) goals of objective knowledge production, soft-law accountability, and infrastructural development. Considering the power relations of global health, her research scrutinizes the infrastructural politics of preparedness monitoring and the modernism inherent in this developmental effort.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55583712117110,"sku":"9783593518978","price":51.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_30143704.jpg?v=1746163714","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9783593518978-monitoring-pandemic-preparedness","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}