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The special issue "Feminist Publishing Against the Pandemic” features essays from thirteen contributors whose work would have been presented at "FiMA2: Feminist Revolutions,” the second conference of the Feminist inter/Modernist Association (FiMA), originally scheduled for Spring 2020, rescheduled, and eventually canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. By soliciting snapshot essays of no more than 2000 words, the editors of the issue are able to showcase a wide range of feminist modernist scholarship in danger of being lost due to the constraints of the pandemic and a profession in crisis. Authors included in the special issue engage with modern women writers, artists, and culture-makers who navigated their own constraints such as fighting for suffrage, managing domestic and professional commitments, responding to two world wars, and continuing feminist work in the post-war years. This collection of essays highlights vibrancy and complexity in the field of feminist modernist scholarship. © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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Safe, effective, and accessible vaccines are urgently needed to end tuberculosis (TB) by 2030. The 6th Global Forum on TB Vaccines, convened virtually 22–25 February 2022, was hosted by Toulouse, France, under the high patronage of President Emmanuel Macron, and the patronages of Minister for Solidarity and Health, Olivier Véran, and Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Frédérique Vidal. The theme for the meeting, "New horizons for TB vaccines”, reflected the changing landscape in which TB vaccine research and development (R&D) is being conducted: TB vaccines advancing into late-stage clinical trials and toward licensure, innovative research toward diversifying the TB vaccine pipeline and developing the next generation of candidates, increasing political, civil society, and community support for TB vaccines, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In this report, we summarize key themes and findings from the meeting, highlighting progress and gaps in the TB vaccine field.
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The authors present a typology of strategies of low-mobility urban groups varying by the levels of solidarity and trust as a reaction to the events taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic. The typology provides social portraits of the clusters of respondents and covers four behavioral strategies: 'consensus strategy,' 'pro-state strategy,' 'pro-social strategy,' and 'autonomy strategy.' 'Consensus strategy' and 'autonomy strategy' are obvious antagonists not only in initial parameters, but also in behavior patterns. A survey of the low-mobile population from three Russian cities showed that a 'consensus strategy' based on solidarity and trust is more successful in terms of the capability to recover quickly after crises and disasters. The predominance of this strategy is typical for all analyzed low-mobility urban groups, namely elderly people, parents of young children, and especially people with disabilities. This is explained by their everyday experience of overcoming various hardships and barriers, thus being capable of forming the most successful patterns of behavior in terms of resistance to various challenges. The representatives of the 'consensus strategy' are more likely than others to support vaccination, compliance with the imposed restrictions, and state measures. They contracted COVID-19 more often than others and usually endured it in a milder form. The 'autonomy strategy' is less common among low-mobile people. It includes rejection of introduced measures and refusal to take care of health, even despite experiencing severe forms of COVID-19 disease which, unfortunately, is the most common case for the covid-dissidents among the low-mobile population.
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Both Yao and Zhao hailed the role of technology in addressing the medication shortage. According to Xinhua News Agency, many pharmaceutical companies in China are working at full capacity to produce analgesics, antipyretics, as well as other over-the-counter medicines to treat COVID-19 symptoms. Additionally, the platform will add reminders and guidelines related to safe medication and try to contact suppliers, hoping to provide users with more medication choices, Tencent added. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Beijing Review is the property of Beijing Review and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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The novel virus SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, has had a profound global impact on health, social wellbeing, and economies, with especially devastating effects on vulnerable populations. A remarkable response to the pandemic was the large-scale enactments of solidarity and prosocial behaviour in different regions of the world. We explore the factors associated with solidarity/prosocial behaviour (regarded as components of the same construct in this study) among South Africans during the second wave of COVID-19. Specifically, this study aimed to determine whether the financial, social, and psychosocial impact of lockdown, living circumstances and resources, fear of contracting COVID-19, trust in information provided by government and institutions, perceptions of procedural justice affecting COVID-19 mitigation implementation, and support for mitigation measures were associated with solidarity/prosocial behaviour during COVID-19. Using a cross-sectional survey, a questionnaire was administered to a randomly selected national sample through Computer-Aided Telephonic Interviews (CATI) and self-completion. Most (67.4%) of the 1686 respondents included in this study were female, with a mean age of 40-45 years (x̄ = 6.76, SD = 3.11). Various psychosocial and economic factors were related to prosocial behaviour. For the full model, the beta weights show that out of the 16 explanatory variables only eight made a significant (p <. 05) contribution to explaining solidarity/prosocial behaviour, and of these, six were positively associated to solidarity and prosocial behaviour. The results demonstrate that overall, South African citizens exhibited a wide range of prosocial and solidaristic behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic, regardless of financial status, race, or gender. © 2023, University of Salento. All rights reserved.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Digital Contact Tracing (DCT) tools were deployed by governments in Europe and beyond as a novel mobile technology to assist traditional manual contact tracing to track individuals who have come in close contact with an infected person. The public debate on this topic focused strongly on the protection of individual privacy. While this debate is important, it fails to address important governance questions–such as, for example, that DCT tools took on the role of social nudges, namely, tools of soft regulation that calibrate information flows so as to "push” people to act in ways that promote collective purposes. Social nudges include a range of norms and values that, however, are built into the technological and social features of the nudge, rather than rendering them open to public scrutiny and debate. Although the use of contact tracing apps is being phased out, the digitization of contact tracing can be seen as a case study of the broader trend towards digitization of the provision of health services. Debates of their governance thus have broader implications for the governance of data driven tools deployed for public health purposes in times of crisis. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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This article examines the trends and differences in predictors of public support for European Union (EU) fiscal solidarity using two individual surveys conducted in 2019 and 2020, before and during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, in six Western European countries. We focus on individual self-interest and European/national identification as the two major determinants of public preference formation. Empirical analyses show that, while the average level of public support for European fiscal solidarity did not change from 2019 to 2020, the negative associations between exclusive national identification and economic vulnerability, on the one hand, and EU fiscal solidarity on the other were weakened. Among both, the identitarian source retained substantive (although reduced) relevance in 2020, while utility did not. Country-level analyses reveal a more complex picture, but the overall pattern holds across the member states included in our sample. We argue that the reduced explanatory power of these typical heuristics that individuals use to shape their attitudes towards European solidarity is connected to the nature of the pandemic as an exogenous ‘common crisis', affecting all member states in a supposedly symmetric manner, at least in the first phase, and inducing interdependencies among them. © 2023, The Author(s).
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The phrase 'in it together' has been used liberally since the outbreak of COVID-19, but the extent that frontline workers felt 'in it together' is not well understood. Here, we consider the factors that built (or eroded) solidarity while working through the pandemic, and how frontline workers navigated their lives through periods of disconnection. Semi-structured interviews with 21 frontline workers, across all sectors, were conducted in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The qualitative data were analysed systematically using reflexive thematic analysis. The three themes identified in the data were: (1) Solidarity as central to frontline experiences; (2) Leadership as absent, shallow and divisive: highlighting 'us-them' distinctions and (3) The rise of 'us' and 'we' among colleagues. Our research offers insights into how frontline workers make sense of their experiences of solidarity and discordance during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with relevance for government and organizational policy-makers shaping future conditions for frontline workers.
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PurposeThis study aims to unlock a ritual chain mechanism that promotes socio-mental (or socio-psychological) resilience. This study draws on interaction ritual chains theory and the concept of transformative service to answer the question of how people could be inspired toward an elevated level of group solidarity, emotional energy, morality and, thus, socio-mental resilience. Design/methodology/approachThis study took a qualitative approach resting upon online reviews and observations from an augmented food festival about hot pot delicacies dedicated to medical workers fighting hard amid the early coronavirus outbreak. FindingsThe results of this study point to four primary ritual outcomes (e.g. emotional energy, group solidarity, symbols of relationships and standards of morality) along with a two-tier micro-macro socio-mental resilience sustainability paradigm. Research limitations/implicationsEmpirical findings from this study could help operators to justify their transformative initiatives as means for customers to replenish their depleted physical and mental resources. Originality/valueThis inquiry presents new nuances to interaction ritual chains. This study also extends the transformative role of hospitality services to accentuate a linkage among individuals, communities and the society.
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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was classified by WHO as a global pandemic, and has gone on to affect millions of people worldwide with severe social and economic consequences. Purpose(s): Due to the global crisis the international community has been facing, many people leave their homes to have access to the medicines they needed. Moreover, many Portuguese households lost their source of income, being in a very difficult situation. Abem: Emergency COVID-19 aims to help the economic deprived citizens to have access to the medicines, health products and healthcare services they need. Method(s): Citizens in an unexpected situation of economic shortage due to the COVID-19 pandemic could be referred by local entities (Municipalities and Institutions of Social Solidarity) to be given access to their medications from local pharmacies. The beneficiaries belonging to risk groups received the medicines at their homes, through an articulation between our partners: pharmacies and local referral entities. Its transportation, articulated by pharmacies, was paid for by this initiative. The medicines and healthcare services were paid for by a Solidary Fund, to which many companies and citizens have contributed. Result(s): The Abem: Emergency COVID-19 are putting efforts in place to present effective results by the time we present the poster at the FIP Virtual 2020. Conclusion(s): This support shows the importance of pharmacies in their communities, as well as their synergic involvement with other partners, such as referral entities (Municipalities and Institutions of Social Solidarity), ANF, AFP, APIFARMA, ADIFA, Plataforma Saude em Dialogo and other local entities helping citizens in need.
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The global spread of Covid-19 led to travel and market restrictions that impacted Guatemala's rural food systems. This distinct economic shock directly affected campesinos, or small-scale farmers who depend on subsistence and commercial food production. Some Guatemalan farmer organizations have been promoting agroecology for decades in efforts to strengthen rural livelihoods and food sovereignty, defend Indigenous rights, and adapt to climate change, and agroecology is positioned as a tool for resilience to various shocks. We consider the neoliberal cooptation of the concept of resilience, and its usefulness in preserving alternative and previous (Indigenous) practices. Data from surveys and semi-structured interviews with farmers and leaders at eight organizations that promote agroecology suggests that prior engagement with a farmer organization, enacted through both agroecological practices and social networks, contributes to campesino resilience to the pandemic's economic shock at the farm level, with regards to production and consumption. This study illustrates the range and diversity of strategies taken up by campesinos during the pandemic, and considers the importance of social networks for collective actions that increase current and future economic solidarity in campesino communities.
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Solidarity tourism provides tourists with the opportunity to help others who are suffering dur-ing crisis by offering shared resources and a sense of community. Although solidarity in times of crisis promises attention to tourists' desires and wellbeing, there is limited evidence of this. This paper aims to understand how solidarity occurs in times of crisis by applying value co -creation. A total of 21,719 traveller posts were thematically analysed to reveal that solidarity can be achieved in various contexts through tourists' co-created care practices, which have emotional and cognitive value. Practices include co-producing, connecting, co-advocating, co -suffering and consuming collaboratively. This paper conceptualises and illustrates solidarity as a relational practice, which is an effective means of support during crises.(c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of health technologies to mitigate against the spread of the disease and improve care, dominantly including life-saving vaccines. But the pandemic has also highlighted that the current biopharmaceutical business model, based on the enclosure of these technologies and on the immense accumulation of capital it enables, leads to vast inequalities in healthcare particularly in low and middle-income countries. We believe that the pharmaceutical industry has a moral duty to enable and enact global solidarity through tech sharing instead of tech hoarding, but judging by current technology transfer practices we question their willingness to assume their role in organizing healthcare markets through solidaristic principles. In the absence of a voluntary adoption of solidaristic principles and practices by biopharmaceutical firms, the institutionalization of global solidarity as a fundamental organizing principle for healthcare markets is necessary to strengthen resilience and know-how globally. With this call, we add to existing conceptualizations of solidarity by (a) introducing a global level of solidarity and (b) thinking through the concept not as an humanistic stance but as a concrete organizing principle for global healthcare markets. © The Author(s) 2023.
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Based on digital network narratives, we analyzed various forms of solidarity actions negotiated by users of the mental health care network to deal with the problems arising from the Covid-19 pandemic in a context of ultra-neoliberal economy. If, on the one hand, the increase in psychosocial suffering was evident, on the other hand, the coping strategies organized by those people were astounding, many of them being developed and managed by themselves. Among these strategies, there is the activation and creation of social networks for specific purposes depending on the problem to be solved. Prioritizing the notion of "gift," these strategies updated the illusio of militancy of the users involved in them. However, the physical distance between the network members and the organization of dialogue in a virtual space make difficult the interaction dynamics in favor of the establishment of interpersonal bonds and conflict resolution. Copyright © 2023, Fundacao UNI Botucatu/UNESP. All rights reserved.
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This article presents the results of a quantitative analysis of 900 Estonian COVID-19 door signs, which were studied to investigate the linguistic means of establishing and maintaining contact between the sign's author (institution) and the addressee (client). Malinowski's notion of "phatic communion" and Laver's notions of "self-oriented" and "other-oriented" utterances as means for expressing status relations-authority and solidarity-between the participants of the communication act were used to establish four types of grammatical person usage on the COVID-19 signs: (1) "neither 1st nor 2nd person"; (2) "1st person only"; (3) "2nd person only", and (4) "both 1st and 2nd person". Grammatical person of personal pronouns and verb forms were included. The presence and absence of two other means for expressing authority-the imperative mood and lexical expressions of authority-were analyzed within these four types of grammatical person usage. The most important difference emerged between the signs belonging to the types "2nd person only" (i.e., signs with only other-oriented 2nd person, without 1st person) and "both 1st and 2nd person" (i.e., signs with both self-oriented 1st person and other-oriented 2nd person). On the signs belonging to the type "2nd person only" that, relying on Laver, express the higher status of the sender of the message in relation to the receiver of the message, the authors of the signs use significantly more imperative mood and less refer to an authority outside the communication act, thus putting themselves in the role of authority. However, on the signs belonging to the type "both 1st and 2nd person" that, relying on Laver, express the solidarity of the sender of the message with the addressee, the authors of the signs seem less inclined to assume the role of authority (using less imperative mood) and rather call the reader of the sign to submit to some higher authority (using lexical expressions of authority, e.g., Vabariigi Valitsus "Government of the Republic", Terviseamet "Health Board", etc.) to which the author of the sign and the addressee are both in a subordinate position and, therefore, of equal status.