Varieties of COVID-19 Reactions and Changing Modes of Globalization in the Global South

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Christina Teipen
• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: from 2021 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 468243969

The project aims to fill gaps in research on the impact of COVID-19 on social upgrading trajectories in global value chains (GVCs) through theoretical and empirical contributions. Overall, it aspires to observe in a timely manner how key players in the Global South as well as external players like lead firms reacted to the COVID-19 crisis, and to which extent existing socio-economic regimes and varieties of capitalisms shape these crisis reactions. This intermediate research could immediately tie up to current research results of the applicant referring to a period before COVID-19 and then feed into a longer-term research proposal on structural reorientations of social upgrading trajectories in the Global South after COVID-19.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Brazil, India, South Africa
• Cooperation Partner: Professorin Dr. Premilla D' Cruz
• International Co-Applicants: Professor Dr. Bruno De Conti; Professor Dr. Ermesto Noronha; Dr. Ben Scully