Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-19

dc.contributor.authorFlynn, Angela V.
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-14T11:22:17Z
dc.date.available2022-04-14T11:22:17Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-17
dc.date.updated2022-04-13T11:12:38Z
dc.description.abstractThe coronavirus pandemic has impacted health care, economies and societies in ways that are still being measured across the world. To control the spread of the virus, governments continue to appeal to citizens to alter their behaviours and act in the interests of the collective public good so as to protect the vulnerable. Demonstrations of collective solidarity are being consistently sought to control the spread of the virus. Catchphrases, soundbites and hashtags such as ‘we’re all in this together’, ‘stronger together’ and other messages of unity are employed, invoking the sense of a collective struggle. However, this approach is fundamentally challenged as collectivist attitudes run contrary to the individualism of neoliberal ideology, to which citizens have been subjected. This paper argues that attempting to employ the concept of solidarity is inherently challenged by the deep impact of neoliberalism in health policies and draws on the work of Durkheim to examine the concept in a context in which health care has become established as an individual responsibility. The paper will argue that a dominant private-responsibility model and an underfunded public system have eroded solidarity weakening its effectiveness in generating concerns for the collective.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationFlynn, A. V. (2022) 'Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-19', Nursing Ethics. doi: 10.1177/09697330211072371en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/09697330211072371en
dc.identifier.eissn1477-0989
dc.identifier.issn0969-7330
dc.identifier.journaltitleNursing Ethicsen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13088
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen
dc.rights© 2022, the Authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectSolidarityen
dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.subjectDurkheimen
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.subjectHealthcareen
dc.subjectCollectivismen
dc.subjectIndividualismen
dc.subjectNeoliberalismen
dc.titleSolidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-19en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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