Mutual aid in north London during the Covid-19 pandemic

CHEVÉE, Adélie

doi:10.1080/14742837.2021.1890574

Mutual aid in north London during the Covid-19 pandemic

dc.contributor.author	CHEVÉE, Adélie
dc.date.accessioned	2023-01-30T11:45:19Z
dc.date.available	2023-01-30T11:45:19Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.description	Published online: 15 March 2021	en
dc.description.abstract	Between March and June 2020, residents in north London faced the Covid-19 pandemic by creating neighbourhood Mutual Aid groups on WhatsApp and Facebook. These groups not only addressed basic survival needs such as bringing groceries and medicines to infected people, the elderly, and other vulnerable populations in quarantine; they also offered opportunities for social interactions between strangers living in the same neighbourhood during lock- down. Their success was linked to their rapid mobilization, adapt- ability and local knowledge. A study of their meso-level organization on Facebook shows that we should pay attention to the potential for mobilization of these grassroots structures. Their bottom-up organization, based on the principle ‘Solidarity not Charity’, showed a singular way to express dissent with policy response to the pandemic, and brought them closer to the horizontal social movements of the 2010s.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Social movement studies, 2022, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 413-419	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1080/14742837.2021.1890574
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dc.identifier.issn	1474-2837
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dc.identifier.startpage	413	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75272
dc.identifier.volume	21	en
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dc.publisher	Routledge	en
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dc.title	Mutual aid in north London during the Covid-19 pandemic	en
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