Abstract

The current health crisis, triggered by the spread of COVID-19, has mobilized activist groups and individuals within social movements worldwide to respond with actions of solidarity and mutual aid. In Greece, during the lockdown between March and May 2020, several mutual aid initiatives emerged in Athens to offer support to those who needed it. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this paper traces the emergence of Kropotkin-19, a mutual aid initiative in the central neighborhood of Exarcheia, that has provided food, essential goods, and legal and psychological support to families and individuals. The paper offers insight into how a preestablished solidarity network has “mutated” in response to the urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic while addressing several long-term and emerging crises. The paper concludes that affective infrastructures are integral to the vision of radical social change in a post-COVID world.

摘要

由COVID-19的传播引发的当前健康危机，动员了世界各地社会运动中的激进主义者团体和个人采取团结和互助的行动来应对。在希腊，在2020年3月至2020年5月的封锁期间，雅典出现了一些互助计划，以向需要的人提供支持。基于人种学的田野调查，本文追溯了Kropotkin-19的出现，是Exarcheia中心社区的一项互助计划，该计划为家庭和个人提供了食品，必需品以及法律和心理支持。本文提供了对预先建立的团结网络如何应对COVID-19大流行的紧迫性的“洞察力”，同时解决了一些长期和新出现的危机。本文得出结论，在后COVID后的世界中，情感基础设施对于实现根本性的社会变革是不可或缺的。