{"product_id":"9783593518978","title":"Monitoring Pandemic Preparedness : Global Health Security's Politics of Accountability, Development, and Infrastructure by Carolin Mezes","description":"How well are countries prepared for the next pandemic? And how to measure and evaluate pandemic preparedness? ? 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\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310637298037,"sku":"9783593518978","price":44.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783593518978.jpg?v=1762814899","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9783593518978","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}