Relationships are everything: The underpinnings of grassroots community action in the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto

Jackson, Suzanne F.; Morgan, Garrett T.; Gloger, Anne; Luca, Sarah; Cerda, Ewa

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2022.104163

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“…Contemporary literature provides a broad list of examples illustrating the pandemic's influence on urban neighborhoods. This impact includes the emergence of neighborhood cooperation initiatives (Jo et al, 2021;Jackson et al, 2023), development of online organized local communities (Sowada, 2020), an increase in community resilience (Jewett et al, 2021;Fransen et al, 2022), the development of innovative bottom-up support for a local economy (Antonescu, 2020), and broadly understood solidarity (Huijer, 2021;Yemane et al, 2023). Public from around the world joined forces and established grassroots support networks with various objectives such as delivering necessities to vulnerable people, providing material and spiritual support to doctors and other healthcare workers, supporting local businesses, tending to the needs of sick or isolated individuals ' pets, Geographia Polonica 2024, 97, 2, pp.…”

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Pre- and post-pandemic attitudes toward participation in community-based initiatives: The case of Poznań

Sowada

2024

Geogr. Pol.

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This study describes and analyzes the pre- and post-pandemic approaches toward participation in communitybased initiatives by the residents of Poznań, Poland. Data for this study were collected through surveys with city dwellers (2018 and 2023) and interviews with local community leaders (2020). These results reveal a notable increase in the willingness to engage in community-based initiatives between 2018 and 2023, with the shared experience of the pandemic threat contributing to this shift. There is also a visible increase in the readiness to involve digitally mediated forms of participation among residents. In conclusion, this study underscores the need to sustain pandemic-driven social mobilization to build long-term community resilience.

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