Negotiating un/sanitary citizenship: the reception of UK government COVID-19 public health messaging by racialised people highly exposed to infection
Anthropol Med. 2024 Feb 12:1-16. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2274710. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTGovernments across the world differently invoked citizen responsibility for responding to the risk of COVID-19 infection. Approaches which focused on changing social practices served to reinforce distinctions between 'sanitary' and 'unsanitary' citizenship. This paper examines citizens' responses to public health policy messaging, exploring as a case study the reception of UK Government messaging about responsible behaviour during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine the public responses to such messaging ...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - February 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anna Dowrick Kaveri Qureshi Tanvi Rai Source Type: research