Johnson, Stephanie;
Roberts, Stephen;
Hayes, Sarah;
Fiske, Amelia;
Lucivero, Federica;
McLennan, Stuart;
Phillips, Amicia;
... Prainsack, Barbara; + view all
(2023)
Understanding Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Support During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in the United Kingdom.
Public Health Ethics
, Article phad024. 10.1093/phe/phad024.
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Abstract
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of solidarity has been invoked frequently. Much interest has centred around how citizens and communities support one another during times of uncertainty. Yet, empirical research which accounts and understands citizen’s views on pandemic solidarity, or their actual practices has remained limited. Drawing upon the analysis of data from 35 qualitative interviews, this article investigates how residents in England and Scotland enacted, understood, or criticised (the lack of) solidarity during the first national lockdown in the United Kingdom in April 2020—at a time when media celebrated solidarity as being at an all-time high. It finds that although solidarity was practiced by some people, the perceived lack of solidarity was just as pronounced. We conclude that despite frequent mobilisations of solidarity by policy makers and other public actors, actual practices of solidarity are poorly understood—despite the importance of solidarity for public health and policy.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Understanding Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Support During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in the United Kingdom |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/phe/phad024 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/phe/phad024 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10185382 |
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