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Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during COVID-19 in Austria
Drawing upon 152 in-depth qualitative interviews with residents in Austria carried out in the first year of the pandemic, this article discusses how people’s experiences with COVID-19 policies reflect and reshape state–citizen relations. Coinciding with a significant government crisis, the first yea...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10201040/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37359140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41292-023-00304-z |
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author | Radhuber, Isabella M. Haddad, Christian Kieslich, Katharina Paul, Katharina T. Prainsack, Barbara El-Sayed, Seliem Schlogl, Lukas Spahl, Wanda Weiss, Elias |
author_facet | Radhuber, Isabella M. Haddad, Christian Kieslich, Katharina Paul, Katharina T. Prainsack, Barbara El-Sayed, Seliem Schlogl, Lukas Spahl, Wanda Weiss, Elias |
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description | Drawing upon 152 in-depth qualitative interviews with residents in Austria carried out in the first year of the pandemic, this article discusses how people’s experiences with COVID-19 policies reflect and reshape state–citizen relations. Coinciding with a significant government crisis, the first year of COVID-19 in Austria saw pandemic measures justified with reference to a biological, often medical understanding of health that framed disease prevention in terms of transmission reduction, often with reference to metrics such as hospitalisation rates, etc. Instead of using this biomedical frame, our interviewees, however, drew attention to biopsychosocial dimensions of the crisis and problematised the entanglements between economy and health. We call this the emergence of a biosocial notion of citizenship that is attentive to psychological, social and economic dimensions of health. Insights into the biosocial nature of pandemic citizenship open a window of opportunity for addressing long-standing social injustices. |
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spelling | pubmed-102010402023-05-23 Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during COVID-19 in Austria Radhuber, Isabella M. Haddad, Christian Kieslich, Katharina Paul, Katharina T. Prainsack, Barbara El-Sayed, Seliem Schlogl, Lukas Spahl, Wanda Weiss, Elias Biosocieties Original Article Drawing upon 152 in-depth qualitative interviews with residents in Austria carried out in the first year of the pandemic, this article discusses how people’s experiences with COVID-19 policies reflect and reshape state–citizen relations. Coinciding with a significant government crisis, the first year of COVID-19 in Austria saw pandemic measures justified with reference to a biological, often medical understanding of health that framed disease prevention in terms of transmission reduction, often with reference to metrics such as hospitalisation rates, etc. Instead of using this biomedical frame, our interviewees, however, drew attention to biopsychosocial dimensions of the crisis and problematised the entanglements between economy and health. We call this the emergence of a biosocial notion of citizenship that is attentive to psychological, social and economic dimensions of health. Insights into the biosocial nature of pandemic citizenship open a window of opportunity for addressing long-standing social injustices. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2023-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10201040/ /pubmed/37359140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41292-023-00304-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Radhuber, Isabella M. Haddad, Christian Kieslich, Katharina Paul, Katharina T. Prainsack, Barbara El-Sayed, Seliem Schlogl, Lukas Spahl, Wanda Weiss, Elias Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during COVID-19 in Austria |
title | Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during COVID-19 in Austria |
title_full | Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during COVID-19 in Austria |
title_fullStr | Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during COVID-19 in Austria |
title_full_unstemmed | Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during COVID-19 in Austria |
title_short | Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during COVID-19 in Austria |
title_sort | citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during covid-19 in austria |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10201040/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37359140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41292-023-00304-z |
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