Open AccessFrom sociality to social distancing: reversing values of solidarity in Italy
Author(s) -
Marchesi Milena
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
social anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.452
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1469-8676
pISSN - 0964-0282
DOI - 10.1111/1469-8676.12892
Subject(s) - sociality , solidarity , social distance , pandemic , dystopia , sociology , distancing , covid-19 , political science , medicine , politics , virology , law , ecology , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology , outbreak
In March, as many countries vacillated in their response to the emerging COVID‐19 pandemic, Italy emerged as the ghost of a dystopian future Healthcare workers and ordinary people took to social media with dire warnings about the virus and reports of lives under strict lockdown ‘State a casa’ (stay at home) quickly coalesced into a moral imperative An act of self‐preservation for the elderly and other vulnerable groups, for the young and healthy staying at home has become an act of solidarity