Governmentality versus vommunity : the impact of the COVID lockdowns
Wallace, Claire (University of Aberdeen)
Mytna-Kurekova, Lucia (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
León, Margarita (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
O'Reilly, Jacqueline (University of Sussex Business School)
Blome, Constantin (University of Sussex Business School)
Bussi, Margarita (University of Louvain)
Faith, Becky (University of Sussex Business School)
Finney, Mark (Emory and Henley College)
Leschke, Janine (Copenhagen Business School)
Ruffa, Chiara (Uppsala University)
Russell, Emma (University of Sussex)
AhSchøyen, Mi (Oslo Metropolitan University)
Thurer, Matthias (Jinan University)
Unt, Marge (Tallinn University)
Verdin, Rachel (University of Sussex Business School)

Date:	2023
Abstract:	The COVID lockdowns were characterised by new forms of governmentality as lives were disrupted and controlled through the vertical transmission of biopolitics by the state. The paper considers how this was experienced by academics in 11 different countries through analysis of diaries written during the first lockdown. The paper asks if communities can offer an alternative to governmentality by looking at three levels: the national, the neighbourhood and the personal. Whilst at a national level the idea of community was instrumentalised to encourage compliance to extraordinary measures, at the local level community compassion through helping neighbours encouraged horizontal connections that could offer a "space" within the dominant logic of governmentality. At the level of personal communities, the digitalisation of social relationships helped to create supportive networks over widely dispersed areas but these were narrowly rather than widely focused, avoiding critical discussion.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Community participation ; Community well-being ; Governance ; Technology and well-being
Published in:	International Journal of Community Well-Being, may 2023, p. 1-18, ISSN 2524-5309

DOI: 10.1007/s42413-023-00189-7
PMID: 37363809

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