Solidarity in the Time of COVID-19?
This article critically examines how solidarity has been enacted in the first 2 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, mainly, but not exclusively, from a United Kingdom perspective.1 Solidaristic strategies are framed in two ways: aspirations to overcome COVID-19 (utopian anthropocentric solidarity); and...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2021
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Jahr: 2021, Band: 30, Heft: 2, Seiten: 234-247 |
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heterotopia
B Covid-19 B biocentric (solidarity) B Pandemic B Utopia B Solidarity B anthropocentric (solidarity) |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article critically examines how solidarity has been enacted in the first 2 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, mainly, but not exclusively, from a United Kingdom perspective.1 Solidaristic strategies are framed in two ways: aspirations to overcome COVID-19 (utopian anthropocentric solidarity); and those that are illusory, incompatible, contradictory, and disrupting of solidaristic ideals (heterotopian solidarity). Solidarity can also be understood more widely from a biocentric perspective (solidarity with all life). In the context of COVID-19 a lack of biocentric solidarity points to a probable cause of the pandemic; where COVID-19, harmless in bats, jumped species as a consequence of closer contact with humans. Solidarity, therefore, is not only expressed in a fight against a viral “enemy” but is also a reminder of human activity that has upset balances within ecosystems. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0963180120000791 |
