Making Communities in Pandemic Cities: Citizen Practices and Social Innovation Against the Intensification of Social Exclusion
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 306
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In 2015, the UN approved the Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development, with the intention of stopping the gaps from growing and gradually closing them. These 17 Sustainable Development Goals are presented as a master plan that covers the most difficult global challenges for the knowledge society; here, we shall address Goals 1 (no poverty), 10 (reduced inequalities) and 11 (sustainable cities and communities).
COVID-19 is poised to be the deadliest airborne viral pandemic since the emergence of the Great Flu (1918-1920). It is the first pandemic in the global age and it has intensified existing inequalities and has disproportionately affected the poor and most vulnerable communities. Cities and neighbourhoods are at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic and its effects, not just public health but also the economy and wider social fabric.
Taking into account this background, this monograph aims to capture, make visible, understand and analyse how citizens and civil society are organising themselves to help and support each other, in order to try to improve their living conditions in a pandemic and post-pandemic context.
We want to focus particularly on two main thematic blocks: on the one hand, social exclusion axes (housing, material and immaterial resources, participation, education, leisure time, employment), and on the other hand, vulnerable groups (children, adolescents, youth, women, elderly, people with disabilities and people of migrant origin). Proposals may address one of the themes independently or in combination.
Dr. Ana Belén Cano-Hila
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- citizen practices
- experiences of solidarity
- social innovation
- pandemic cities
- neighbourhoods
- communities
- social exclusion
- urban poverty
- welfare and wellbeing
- social transformation
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