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Resources and examples of Covid-19 mutual aid and community solidarity

• UK solidarity during Covid-19
  
  • John Harris (22 Nov 2020) - Mutual aid groups and local services
  • Luca Tiratelli (1 Oct, 2020) - A second wave for mutual aid?
  • Sally Young (14 Aug 2020) - A little bit of kindness
  • Amy Clarke  (13 July 2020) - Leicester lockdown: blame on minority communities needs to be challenged
  • Bylines Times (24 June 2020) - Communities Need to Take Contact Tracing into their Own Hands
  • Roza Sakellaropoulou (16 Jul 2020) - Research in the time of a pandemic: Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the UK (Discussion with Dr Rhiannon Firth and Professor John Preston on their book)
  • Esther Addley (5 June 2020) - Making up with the Joneses: how Covid-19 has brought neighbours closer
  • Eshe Kiama Zuri (5 June, 2020) - ‘We’ve been organising like this since day’ – why we must remember the Black roots of mutual aid groups
  • Rupert Jones (26 May 2020) - UK volunteering soars during coronavirus crisis: Ten million have helped in their community – most plan to continue after lockdown ends
  • Rebecca Solnit (14 May 2020) - 'The way we get through this is together': the rise of mutual aid under coronavirus
  • Patrick Butler (3 May 2020) - NHS coronavirus crisis volunteers frustrated at lack of tasks
  • Luke Heppenstall-West (29 April 2020) - How Austerity Is Undermining Mutual Aid
  • Patrick Butler (13 April 2020) - A million volunteer to help NHS and others during Covid-19 outbreak
  • Mattha Busby (12 April 2020) - Paramedics and pet clinics: how stranded Britons are helping out
  • Adam Wells (9 April 2020) - Covid has made us all Northern
  • Francis Balgburn, (26 Mar 2020) - Inside the rise of covid-10 mutual aid
  • Robert Booth  (16 Mar 2020) - Community aid groups set up across UK amid coronavirus crisis
• Lists of mutual aid groups in the UK
  • Covid-19 Mutual Aid UK - Covid-19 ​Mutual Aid: Local organising to support the most vulnerable in our communities
  • Freedom News – UK COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups
  • Volunteer Scotland - Inventory of Mutual Aid Groups in Scotland
• Worldwide examples of solidarity during Covid-19 pandemic
  • Mariana Sitrin & Colectiva Sembrar (2020) - Pandemic solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis
  • Paul Agu Igwe et al. (3 Nov 2020) - Solidarity and social behaviour: how did this help communities to manage COVID-19 pandemic?
  • Christopher M. Federico, Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, & Tomasz Baran (14 Oct 2020) - Collective narcissism produces only a narrow covid solidarity
  • Sobhi Mohanty (22 May 2020) - From communal violence to lockdown hunger – Emergency responses by civil society networks, Delhi, India
  • Zeynep Tufekci (12 May 2020) - How Hong Kong Did It: With the government flailing, the city’s citizens decided to organize their own coronavirus response
  • Andrew Harding (7 April 2020) - How coronavirus inspired a gangland truce in South Africa
  • George Monbiot (31 Mar 2020) - The horror films got it wrong. This virus has turned us into caring neighbours
  • Tobias Jones (28 Mar 2020) - Three weeks of lockdown in Italy has given us vital perspective – and small comforts
  • Gwynne Hogan, (19 Mar 2020) - Neighbors Mobilize To Help Each Other During Coronavirus Pandemic
  • Jamie Mackay (10 Mar 2020) - Under coronavirus lockdown, Italy is finding a fragile sense of solidarity
  • Tim Parks (9 Mar 2020) - This Is Life Under Lockdown in Italy
  • Myriam Gurba (14 May 2020) - PoC draw upon their previous mutual aid in covid-19. Plus guidance for mutual aid
• Worldwide lists of community solidarity responses
  • Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Ball State University, USA - Altruistic stories and COVID-19
  • ECPA, SCRA, CTB and CPCS - The New Bank for Community Ideas and Solutions
  • Community Tool Box, University of Kansa, USA - Coronavirus Response Tool Box
• Neighbourliness, community support and energy over time
  
  • Arelis R. Hernández & Alexandra Hinojosa (27 Nov 2020) - El Paso was still grieving when the coronavirus arrived. Now, death has overwhelmed it
  • Smith, L. E., Duffy, B., Moxham-Hall, V., Strang, L., Wessely, S., & Rubin, G. J. (28 Oct 2020) - Anger and confrontation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national cross-sectional survey in the UK
  • Borkowska, M., & Laurence, J. (22 Oct 2020) - Coming together or coming apart? Changes in social cohesion during the Covid-19 pandemic in England
  • Archie Bland (19 Oct 2020) - 'We’ve been forgotten': locked-down Leicester teeters on brink of despair
  • WHO (5 Oct 2020) - Pandemic fatigue Reinvigorating the public to prevent COVID-19: Policy framework for supporting pandemic prevention and management
  • Archie Bland (28 Sep 2020) - ‘Like the English civil war’: Covid crisis inflames neighbour disputes
  • Samantha Montano (18 June 2020) - Disaster fatigue is Real – and the Coronavirus Could Make it Worse
  • Krzysztof Kaniasty (April 2020) - Social support, interpersonal, and community dynamics following disasters caused by natural hazards
• Resources for supporting and sustaining mutual aid groups
  
  • Tim Hughes (5 Oct 2020) - Building Back With: A Handbook for Involving Communities in the Covid-19 Response and Recovery
  • Manchester Local Care Organisation (July 2020) - Learning from Covid Mutual Aid Groups in Central Manchester
  • Queercare (13 July 2020) - Delivering items to someone in self-isolation protocol
  • Robert Soden (2 July 2020) - Crisis Informatics and Mutual Aid during the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Research Agenda
  • Anastasia Kavada (12 June 2020) - Creating a hyperlocal infrastructure of care: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups
  • Ella Scheepers, Ishtar Lakhani & Kasey Armstrong (15 May 2020) - Making a Community Action Net (work): organising in the times of COVID-19
  • Communities Prepared Team (20 Mar 2020) - Responding to Coronavirus: Communities Prepared launches Public Health Volunteer training
• Role of authorities and existing structures
  
  • Community organisers (1 July 2020) - Community organizing Locally rooted: The place of community organising in times of crisis
  • Jude Stansfield, Tom Mapplethorpe,& Jane South (1 June 2020) - The community response to coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • Vidhya Alakeson & Will Brett (5 May 2020) - Local Heroes: How to sustain community spirit beyond Covid-19
  • Daniela G. Domínguez, Dellanira García, David A. Martínez, Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga (2020) - Leveraging the power of mutual aid, coalitions, leadership, and advocacy during COVID-19
  • Ruben Durante, Luigi Guiso, Giorgio Gulino (16 April, 2020) - Civic capital and social distancing: Evidence from Italians’ response to COVID-19
  • Howard Rheingold (16 Mar 2020) - Mutual Aid & Social Capital: The Power of Communities, Networks
  • Office for National Statistics (20 Fev 2020) - Social Capital in the UK: 2020
• Mutual aid groups beyond the pandemic: What next?
  
  • John Harris (22 Nov 2020) - Local people have had to improvise during the pandemic. Could their solutions stick?
  • Tiratelli, L. (12 Oct 2020) - Towards Resilience: Redesigning our systems for a better future
  • Brighton & Hove Mutual Aid (6 Oct 2020) - Brighton & Hove Mutual Aid - What Next?
• Academic research
  
  • John Drury et al., University of Sussex - Community solidarity and mutual aid
  • Emma O’Dwyer, Kingston University - UK community response & Mutual Aid networks during the COVID-19
  • Marco Felici, Bennett Institute - Social capital and the response to Covid-19
  • Luca Tiratelli and Simon Kaye,  NLGN - Communities vs Coronavirus: The Rise of Mutual Aid
  • Chris Cocking, University of Brighton - Spontaneous volunteering and mutual collective support seen in Brighton and Hove
  • Housing and Communities Group, London School of Economics & Political Science - Mutual Aid Groups and community responses to COVID-19
  • Angie Hart et al., University of Brighton - Nothing about us without us: civic activism as a mental health intervention
  • Megan Vine and Ronni Greenwood, University of Limerick - Experiences of Community Solidarity in Ireland
  • Dominic Abrams, Fanny Lalot et al., University of Kent - Beyond Us and Them Perception of Covid-19 and Social Cohesion
  • Michael Roy, Glasgow Caledonian University - Solidarity in a time of crisis: the role of mutual aid to the Covid-19 pandemic
  • Tom Wein - New Solidarity: How mutual aid may change Britain
  • Carly Walker-Dawsonm, London School of Economics & Political Science - Young people’s volunteering during the pandemic
  • Daisy Fancourt & Andrew Steptoe, University College London - Covid-19 Social Study: Understading the psychological and social impact of the pandemic
  • David Clifford, Alasdair Rutherford & John Mohan, University of Birmingham - Assessing financial vulnerability and risk in the UK's charities during and beyond the COVID-19 crisis
  • Covid-19 Research in Scotland - Scotland’s volunteering response to the COVID-19 crisis and recovery phase should be informed by robust research evidence