This article critically examines how solidarity has been enacted in the first 2 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, mainly, but not exclusively, from a United Kingdom perspective. 1 Solidaristic strategies are framed in two ways: aspirations to overcome COVID-19 (utopian anthropocentric solidarity); and those that are illusory, incompatible, contradictory, and disrupting of solidaristic ideals (heterotopian solidarity). Solidarity can also be understood more widely from a biocentric perspective (solidarity with all life). In the context of COVID-19 a lack of biocentric solidarity points to a probable cause of the pandemic; where COVID-19, harmless in bats, jumped species as a consequence of closer contact with humans. Solidarity, therefore, is not only expressed in a fight against a viral “enemy” but is also a reminder of human activity that has upset balances within ecosystems.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, pandemic, solidarity, anthropocentric (solidarity), biocentric (solidarity), utopia, heterotopia, 【초록키워드】 COVID-19 pandemic, humans, United Kingdom, bats, Contact, Perspective, lack, expressed, overcome, disrupting, incompatible, 【제목키워드】 time,