TY - JOUR
T1 - Governmentality Versus Community
T2 - The Impact of the COVID Lockdowns
AU - Wallace, Claire
AU - Mytna-Kurekova, Lucia
AU - Leon, Margarita
AU - O’Reilly, Jacqueline
AU - Blome, Constantin
AU - Bussi, Margarita
AU - Faith, Becky
AU - Finney, Mark
AU - Leschke, Janine
AU - Ruffa, Chiara
AU - Russell, Emma
AU - AhSchøyen, Mi
AU - Thurer, Matthias
AU - Unt, Marge
AU - Verdin, Rachel
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PY - 2023/5/9
Y1 - 2023/5/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Community participation
KW - Community well-being
KW - Governance
KW - Technology and well-being
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85169110099&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/5747bab4-3f67-33bc-9247-d9d781886209/
U2 - 10.1007/s42413-023-00189-7
DO - 10.1007/s42413-023-00189-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 37363809
AN - SCOPUS:85169110099
SN - 2524-5295
VL - 6
SP - 223
EP - 240
JO - International Journal of Community Well-Being
JF - International Journal of Community Well-Being
ER -