Pandemic solidarity: society’s responses to state insufficiency

Ciencia e Saude Coletiva

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Petra, Priscila Cardia¹  Bueno, Flávia Thedim Costa¹  Chagas, Claudia Lopes Rodrigues²  Lage, Leandro dos Reis³  Palácios, Marisa² 

[1] Fundação Oswaldo Cruz;Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro;Universidade Federal Fluminense

关键词: Solidarity;    Pandemics;    COVID-19;    Self-management;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1413-812320222711.11052022EN

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Associacao Brasileira de Pos - Graduacao em Saude Coletiva

【 摘 要 】

The COVID-19 pandemic reached Brazil in a context of political and economic crises that have exacerbated existing inequalities and vulnerabilities. Individuals and organizations undertook actions to support others to mitigate the pandemic effects. Thirty-four interviews were conducted from October to November 2020 to identify the supportive actions to help others, analyzing them concerning (pandemic) solidarity. Solidarity and individualism frequently appeared in the interviews as qualifiers of such actions. Furthermore, we identified three cores in which these actions were staged: the family, the condominium, and the community. The family was mentioned as mutual support based on kinship. On the other hand, condominium actions were subdivided into intramural (mutual support actions among similar people) and extramural actions (which reveal the differentiation between the condominium and more impoverished places). The community emerges as a more powerful type of action, with self-management, mutual support, and shared vulnerability experiences. In this sense, the results encourage us to understand solidarity as a way of transforming society, regardless of the State’s presence.

【 授权许可】

CC BY