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The author is grateful to Felix Anderl, Sarah Balakrishnan and Edna Bonhomme for their valuable comments on earlier versions of this work.
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1. Meaning delayed, absolute or relative lack of access, as well as constrained access or less benefits due to price differences and riskier, ineffective or lower quality pharmaceutical products (i.e., vaccines and medicines) distributed in most countries of the Global South as opposed to expedited, privileged and subsidised access to high-quality medicines and vaccines in most countries of the Global North.
2. In this paper, I refer to these global systems of governance as ‘Pandemic Politics’.
3. With exceptions such as Brazil.
4. While the term ‘vaccine nationalism’ makes it seem that the phenomenon is global, it is worth noting that as of February 2021, 10 countries had acquired 75% of available Covid19 Vaccines and 130 countries had not received a single dose according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
5. The preceding part of Natsios quote reads: ‘So the biggest problem, if you look at Kofi Annan’s budget, half the budget is for antiretrovirals. If we had them today, we could not distribute them. We could not administer the program because we do not have the doctors, we do not have the roads, we do not have the cold chain. This sounds small and some people, if you have travelled to rural Africa you know this, this is not a criticism, just a different world.’
6. This actually happened, see previous paragraph.
7. Mbembe defines hydraulic racism as “that of juridicobureaucratic and institutional micro- and macro measures of the state machine”.
8. Including L. von Mises, G. Haberler, W. Röpke, L. Robbins, and F. Hayek.
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Eric Otieno Sumba
Eric Otieno Sumba is a doctoral researcher at the Chair for Development and Postcolonial Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany. He is currently working on his dissertation titled ‘Resisting Necropolitics: Protest, Patents and Power in the Global Political Economy. Email: [email protected]