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Stay safe, stay home? Majority world children, the COVID-19 pandemic, and (everyday) security politics

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This article explores children in the majority world’s experiences of the stringent health security practices implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on original empirical research in five majority world countries, it examines children’s own accounts of their experiences of lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. Our analysis of the children’s narratives draws out the spatial, temporal, and affective dimensions of home-making under stay-at-home orders. In turn, we highlight complex and ambivalent connections between the notable and the mundane, between security and the everyday, and between home-making and world-building, and offer conclusions informed by majority world children on the ‘(important) banality of security and security politics’.

Source: The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

DOI: 10.1177/13691481241284362

Authors: Kelly Staples, Michelle O’Reilly, Sajida Hassan, Panos Vostanis

Institutions: University of Leicester, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Language: English

Topic: Global Security and Public Health

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,450