Social Distancing, Safe Spaces and the Demand for Quarantine

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2776271
AutoresFrank Furedi (University of Kent, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume57
Fascículo4
Páginas392-397
Data de publicação2020-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociety (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0147-2011 • E-ISSN: 1936-4725
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s12115-020-00500-8
PMID32836556
OpenAlexW3043202495
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

Social distance has been a topic of interest in sociology for more than a century before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas in the past it referred to the distance between groups in more recent times it signifies the space between individuals. The aspiration for safe space and personal boundaries in recent years indicated that social distancing has acquired an increasingly individuated and privatised form. This article suggests that the demand for safe space can be interpreted as a demand for a quarantine from psychic threats. This pre-existing demand for a quarantine from criticism and pressure has seamlessly meshed with the imperative of social distancing in the COVID-19 era

Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Criminology · Development economics · Distancing · Economic growth · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Quarantine · Social distance · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Medicine