{"id":17252,"date":"2020-06-18T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.community\/?p=17252"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:43:50","slug":"solidarity-in-times-of-pandemics-cas-see-weekly-seminars-with-guests-barbara-prainsack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idese.community\/index.php\/solidarity-in-times-of-pandemics-cas-see-weekly-seminars-with-guests-barbara-prainsack\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDARITY IN TIMES OF PANDEMICS: CAS SEE WEEKLY SEMINARS WITH GUESTS \u2013 BARBARA PRAINSACK"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]On\u00a0Wednesday, June 17th from 10.00 to 11.30 am<\/strong>\u00a0we hosted the fourth\u00a0CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with\u00a0<\/strong>Barbara Prainsack<\/strong>, presented by\u00a0Vedran D\u017eihi\u0107<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges for policymakers, public health officials, and societies. The social and economic effects are likely to be felt for years to come.\u00a0Amidst these difficult times, politicians, public and social media have been highlighting a note of hope: People are really looking out for each other \u2013 we\u2019ve heard. We have seen signs posted in virtual and physical spaces by people offering their help to strangers. Even the United Nations remarked on the \u201cspreading\u201d of solidarity \u201camong people everywhere\u201d.\u00a0But is this what we have been seeing, really solidarity?<\/strong>\u00a0And how does the supposed surge in solidarity sit with other practices that we have also been observing, such as the closure of national borders, or politicians pitching the plight of refugees against the suffering of people affected by COVID?<\/p>\n

Barbara Prainsack began her presentation by\u00a0asking what solidarity is<\/strong>, and by proposing\u00a0a definition that enables us to distinguish it from other types of support and pro-social practice<\/strong>. She will then draw upon empirical findings from two on-going studies on personal and societal effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Austria to argue that, while forms of inter-personal solidarity have been shifting even during the first weeks and months of the crisis, what is becoming increasingly clear is the importance of institutionalized solidarity. The most resilient societies at times of COVID-19 have not been those with the best medical technology or the strictest pandemic containment measures, but those with good public infrastructures and a political discourse that emphasizes shared stakes and risks, instead of pitching different groups of the population against each other.<\/p>\n

Barbara Prainsack is a Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, and at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King\u2019s College London. Her work explores the social, regulatory and ethical dimensions of biomedicine and bioscience, with a focus on personalized and \u201cprecision\u201d medicine, citizen participation, and the role of solidarity in medicine and healthcare (most recent book:\u00a0Personalized\u00a0Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?<\/em>, NYU Press, 2017).\u00a0Barbara\u00a0is a member of the Austrian National Bioethics Committee and of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies advising the European Commission. She\u00a0is currently involved in two COVID-related studies:\u00a0https:\/\/politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at\/forschung\/forschungsschwerpunkte\/cescos-zeitgenoessische-solidaritaetsstudien\/solidarity-in-times-of-a-pandemic-what-do-people-do-and-why\/<\/a>, and\u00a0https:\/\/viecer.univie.ac.at\/coronapanel\/<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_empty_space]

CAS SEE Fellows in Dialogue Barbara Prainsack<\/strong><\/div>[vc_empty_space][vc_video link=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/Jaxg1BOgUX0″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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