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Zbyszewska, Ania and Sekalala, Sharifah (2023) Towards a feminist geo-legal ethic of caring within medical supply chains : lessons from careless supply during the COVID-19 pandemic. Feminist Legal Studies . doi:10.1007/s10691-023-09520-1 ISSN 0966-3622. (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-023-09520-1
Abstract
The COVID-19 crisis illustrates the fragility of supply chains. Countries with excellent health systems struggled to ensure essential supplies of food, medicines, and personal protective equipment which were vital to a fast and effective response. Using geo-legality which maps the constitutive relations between law and space, we argue that the failure of supply chains in many western countries during the crisis reveals a fundamental tension between their role as facilitators of care and caring, and the logistic logics by which they operate. While supply chains link the intimate, domestic concerns of providing medical care with the globalised geographical concerns of getting goods across different jurisdictions at the right time, their contemporary organization and regulation does not reflect the caring relations and public goods they are meant to support. Drawing on analysis of examples from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this article argues that a reconfiguration of supply chains in accordance with feminist approaches that place care at the centre of supply chain operation and organization will be important to amendments of both domestic and global health law.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Business logistics, Delivery of goods, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , Medical laws and legislation, Caring -- Moral and ethical aspects, Business ethics | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Feminist Legal Studies | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0966-3622 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2023 | ||||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s10691-023-09520-1 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 December 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 February 2023 | ||||||||
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