Nation (Un)masked: Imagined Immunities and Responsible Citizenship in a Postsocialist Pandemic

0578432 - SOÚ 2024 RIV SK eng J - Journal Article
Stöckelová, Tereza - Kolářová, K. - Senft, Lukáš
Nation (Un)masked: Imagined Immunities and Responsible Citizenship in a Postsocialist Pandemic.
Sociológia. Roč. 55, č. 6 (2023), s. 583-606. ISSN 0049-1225. E-ISSN 1336-8613
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA20-09830S
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : Covid-19 * Czech Republic * imagined immunity * postsocialism * responsibilization * solidarity * vulnerability
OECD category: Sociology
Impact factor: 0.6, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
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The Covid-19 pandemic revealed a dramatic need for modes of solidarity and responsibility that take into account welfare of others and simultaneously stem from the recognition of global co-dependency and shared vulnerabilities. Using the concepts of ‘imagined immunity’ and ‘competing responsibilities’, this article examines the ways in which experiences, skills and discourses of the socialist past were mobilized during the first year of the pandemic in the Czech Republic in diverse, often contradictory ways to articulate the complexities of and hindrances to such modes of biopolitical solidarity.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0347428