Sense of us in the face of the pandemic: A psychosocial and community approach

ABSTRACT

This chapter describes how indigenous people face the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic from a community approach. Through a documentary research, we advance in analyzing the living conditions of indigenous people in the pandemic, the ways of facing it, and the "new normalities" based on the psychosocial and community resources that these social actors have. A substantial finding is that the sense of "us" functions as a psychosocial and community strength to face the pandemic. The sense of "us" implies feeling, vocalizing, living, and having a conscience that brings people together at a time when the social and health conditions resulting from the pandemic have exposed inequality, inequity, the system of injustice, and poverty as a framework of capitalism that urges individualism over the commitment to the common good and the community. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)