Social love and social movements in the pandemic
(2023) Social Love and the Critical Potential of People — ISBN: [9781003217039], p. 129-140, published
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- Restoring solidarity and interpersonal relationships so that care and attention to others and love may be ways of rebuilding hope in spaces of solidarity and emancipation, of opposing a model of society centred on selfishness and hyper- utilitarianism and of initiating another world in the midst of this crisis. Recreating and enacting a sense of commonality and caring for each others are even more crucial in a time when the threat of the pandemic has led many to retreat to their close family and to the rise of racism. As social scientists, it is easy to oversee daily life and focus on the macro-level and the political arena. However, as Gennaro Iorio and Silvia Cataldi remind us, “the overabounding is expressed through large or small gestures that can also be viewed as daily heroism” (Chapter 1). In a world dominated by selfish interests and hyper-individualism, caring for others and establishing active solidarity and convivial interpersonal relationships have a prefigurative dimension. They have become a fundamental part of activism and a crucial contribution by contemporary popular movements.
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Pleyers, G. (2023). Social love and social movements in the pandemic. In Silvia Cataldi (ed.), Social Love and the Critical Potential of People (Routledge, p. p. 129-140). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003217039-18