by Sophal Ear, Sr. Assoc. Dean of Student Success & Assoc. Professor, Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU
Date & Time: Friday, October 21, 2022, at 11:00 AM
Location: Durham 240 & Zoom
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Synopsis
This talk, based on Sophal Ear's third book, Viral Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Pandemics: What Explains How Countries Handle Outbreaks? (Routledge, 2022) focuses on Southeast Asia and beyond to consider the intersection between disease, politics, science, and culture in the global battle against pandemics, making use of case studies and interviews to examine the ways in which governments and regions handle outbreaks and pandemics.
Speaker's Biography
Dr. Sophal Ear is Associate Dean of Student Success and a tenured Associate Professor in the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University, USA. He is the author of Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy (Columbia University Press), co-author of The Hungry Dragon: How China’s Resource Quest Is Reshaping the World (Routledge), and co-editor of the special virtual issue of Politics and the Life Sciences on Coronavirus: Politics, Economics, and Pandemics (Cambridge University Press).