Toward global citizenship? People (de)bordering their lives during COVID-19 in Latin America and Europe
ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 pandemic highlighted global interdependencies, accompanied by widespread calls for worldwide cooperation against a virus that knows no borders, but responses were led largely separately by national governments. In this tension between aspiration and reality, people began to grap...
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| author | Isabella M. Radhuber Amelia Fiske Ilaria Galasso Nicolai Gessl Michael D. Hill Emma R. Morales Lorena E. Olarte-Sánchez Alejandro Pelfini Gertrude Saxinger Wanda Spahl |
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| description | ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 pandemic highlighted global interdependencies, accompanied by widespread calls for worldwide cooperation against a virus that knows no borders, but responses were led largely separately by national governments. In this tension between aspiration and reality, people began to grapple with how their own lives were affected by the global nature of the pandemic. In this article, based on 493 qualitative interviews conducted between 2020 and 2021, we explore how people in Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Ecuador, Ireland, Italy and Mexico experienced, coped with and navigated the global nature of the pandemic. In dialogue with debates about the parameters of the ‘global’ in global health, we focus on what we call people's everyday (de)bordering practices to examine how they negotiated (dis)connections between ‘us’ and ‘them’ during the pandemic. Our interviewees’ reactions moved from national containment to an increasing focus on people's unequal socio-spatial situatedness. Eventually, they began to (de)border their lives beyond national lines of division and to describe a new normal: a growing awareness of global connectedness and a desire for global citizenship. This newfound sense of global interrelatedness could signal support for and encourage transnational political action in times of crises. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-13e228ca7ed4471894ba3c6cdb54e7ab2023-11-27T17:11:24ZengTaylor & Francis GroupGlobal Public Health1744-16921744-17062023-01-0118110.1080/17441692.2023.2285880Toward global citizenship? People (de)bordering their lives during COVID-19 in Latin America and EuropeIsabella M. Radhuber0Amelia Fiske1Ilaria Galasso2Nicolai Gessl3Michael D. Hill4Emma R. Morales5Lorena E. Olarte-Sánchez6Alejandro Pelfini7Gertrude Saxinger8Wanda Spahl9Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Wien, AustriaDepartment of Clinical Medicine, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munchen, GermanyDepartment of Clinical Medicine, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munchen, GermanyDepartment of Political Science, University of Vienna, Wien, AustriaDepartment of Anthropology, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, EcuadorDepartment of Habitat and Urban Development, ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, Tlaquepaque, MexicoDepartment of Political Science, University of Vienna, Wien, AustriaFaculty of Social Sciences, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaDepartment of Political Science, University of Vienna, Wien, AustriaDepartment of Political Science, University of Vienna, Wien, AustriaABSTRACTThe COVID-19 pandemic highlighted global interdependencies, accompanied by widespread calls for worldwide cooperation against a virus that knows no borders, but responses were led largely separately by national governments. In this tension between aspiration and reality, people began to grapple with how their own lives were affected by the global nature of the pandemic. In this article, based on 493 qualitative interviews conducted between 2020 and 2021, we explore how people in Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Ecuador, Ireland, Italy and Mexico experienced, coped with and navigated the global nature of the pandemic. In dialogue with debates about the parameters of the ‘global’ in global health, we focus on what we call people's everyday (de)bordering practices to examine how they negotiated (dis)connections between ‘us’ and ‘them’ during the pandemic. Our interviewees’ reactions moved from national containment to an increasing focus on people's unequal socio-spatial situatedness. Eventually, they began to (de)border their lives beyond national lines of division and to describe a new normal: a growing awareness of global connectedness and a desire for global citizenship. This newfound sense of global interrelatedness could signal support for and encourage transnational political action in times of crises.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17441692.2023.2285880COVID-19global healthnational borderseveryday (de)bordering practicesglobal citizenship |
| spellingShingle | Isabella M. Radhuber Amelia Fiske Ilaria Galasso Nicolai Gessl Michael D. Hill Emma R. Morales Lorena E. Olarte-Sánchez Alejandro Pelfini Gertrude Saxinger Wanda Spahl Toward global citizenship? People (de)bordering their lives during COVID-19 in Latin America and Europe Global Public Health COVID-19 global health national borders everyday (de)bordering practices global citizenship |
| title | Toward global citizenship? People (de)bordering their lives during COVID-19 in Latin America and Europe |
| title_full | Toward global citizenship? People (de)bordering their lives during COVID-19 in Latin America and Europe |
| title_fullStr | Toward global citizenship? People (de)bordering their lives during COVID-19 in Latin America and Europe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Toward global citizenship? People (de)bordering their lives during COVID-19 in Latin America and Europe |
| title_short | Toward global citizenship? People (de)bordering their lives during COVID-19 in Latin America and Europe |
| title_sort | toward global citizenship people de bordering their lives during covid 19 in latin america and europe |
| topic | COVID-19 global health national borders everyday (de)bordering practices global citizenship |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17441692.2023.2285880 |
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