Publication
'When someone gets sick, we run to them, not from them': Holding space for solidarity otherwise and the city in times of Covid‐19
In this article, the researchers examine how we can think about solidarity in ways that are attentive to the diversity of stories, spaces, practices, bodies, and temporalities shaping a city. They argue that 'holding space' is at the heart of such endeavour.
- Author
- Aminata Cairo, Lisa‐Marlen Gronemeier, Rosalba Icaza, Umbreen Salim, Jyothi Thrivikraman and Daniela Vicherat Mattar
- Date
- 12 December 2024
- Links
- Read the full article here
The researchers examined different practices and dynamics of solidarity across different locations in the city of The Hague, The Netherlands. The project took place during the Covid-19 pandemic and aimed at exploring the multiple forms of solidarity that occur between city dwellers, the places they occupy in the city and their daily practices that support urban life.
The authors focus on how communities responded to the crisis, offering new perspectives on solidarity. It examines the diverse practices and spaces that shaped these acts of solidarity, while also considering the different temporalities and bodies involved in the response to the pandemic. The article emphasises how the pandemic reshaped urban solidarities, highlighting diverse, often overlooked experiences of care and community response. Furthermore the researchers highlight the need to reconceptualise solidarity in a way that allows for differences to come forward, to be creative with those differences, to be able to grapple with the plurality of life stories of solidarity that shape The Hague.