Playing in the Team of Five Million

Conformity and Nonconformity to the New Zealand Covid-19 Pandemic Response

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7736615
AutoresSara Salman (0000-0002-3347-7062, Victoria University of Wellington, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen31
Número2
Páginas343-361
Fecha de publicación2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1205-8629 • E-ISSN: 1572-9877
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10612-023-09707-7
OpenAlexW4381685166
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas16

The New Zealand Covid-19 strategy received praise at home and abroad. However, despite the epidemiological success of the strategy, it amplified social inequalities and exclusion, highlighted existing frustration and mistrust of the government, and in turn produced reactionary forms of conformity and noncompliance as well as prosocial forms of resistance. This article focuses on three types of social responses to the pandemic in New Zealand between 2020 and 2022. It looks at hostile conformity exemplified in antipathy against Pacific Island communities dealing with Covid-19 outbreaks, reactionary noncompliance seen in the anti-mandate protests and parliament occupation, and prosocial resistance to the state’s neglect of Indigenous public health seen in the Māori organized effort to protect communities left out of the pandemic preparedness plans. The article presents a critical understanding of the limits of New Zealand’s Covid-19 strategy and the resulting social responses of conformity and nonconformity

Conformity · Criminology · Economics · Mandate · Nonconformity · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Prosocial behavior · Reactionary · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology