{"product_id":"a-monitoring-pandemic-preparedness-global-health-securitys-politics-of-accountability-development-and-infrastructure","title":"Monitoring Pandemic Preparedness","description":"\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  ","brand":"Campus Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53568518062424,"sku":"9783593518978","price":54.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783593518978.jpg?v=1777712436","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/a-monitoring-pandemic-preparedness-global-health-securitys-politics-of-accountability-development-and-infrastructure","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}