People across the world have responded to the pandemic by mobilizing and organizing to support their communities, setting up mutual aid groups to provide practical, financial, and social support. Mutual aid means short-term 'crisis response' for some, while for other groups, it is a chance to radically restructure society, and what it means to be a member of that society. Drawing on social representations theory and previous work on citizenship in social and political psychology, we examined the ways in which mutual aid was understood and performed by members of UK Covid-19 mutual aid groups. We conducted 29 interviews with members of these groups in May/June 2020. A reflexive thematic analysis showed that mutual aid groups were characterized as complex, efficient, and non-hierarchical units, operating on the principles of solidarity, kindness, and trust. Two tensions were evident in the data, specifically between (1) collaboration with existing organizations and structures (e.g., local government and the police), and resistance to it and (2) maximizing group inclusivity and sustaining political critique. Findings are discussed in relation to existing theoretical and empirical work on citizenship and mutual aid groups.

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排练后 Covid-19 公民身份：英国 Covid-19 互助的社会代表

世界各地的人们通过动员和组织支持他们的社区、建立互助小组来提供实际、财政和社会支持来应对这一流行病。互助对一些人来说意味着短期的“危机应对”，而对其他群体来说，这是一个彻底重组社会的机会，以及成为该社会的一员意味着什么。我们利用社会表征理论和之前在社会和政治心理学中关于公民身份的工作，研究了英国 Covid-19 互助组织成员理解和执行互助的方式。我们在 2020 年 5 月/6 月对这些团体的成员进行了 29 次访谈。反思性主题分析表明，互助团体的特点是复杂、高效和无等级的单位，按照团结的原则运作，善良和信任。数据中明显存在两种紧张关系，特别是在 (1) 与现有组织和结构（例如，地方政府和警察）的合作以及对其的抵制和 (2) 最大化群体包容性和维持政治批评之间。研究结果将结合现有的关于公民身份和互助团体的理论和实证工作进行讨论。