Haase Annegret
Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
Front Sociol. 2020 Nov 12;5:583638. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2020.583638. eCollection 2020.
The article deals with Covid-19 as a social crisis and justice challenge for cities. It describes how Covid-19 shines a spotlight on the uneven distribution of goods and burdens, opportunities and resources that we find in most of the world's cities today; inequality and justice challenges arise from both the crisis itself and some of the policy reactions to it, such as the stay-at-home orders and economic lockdowns. It shows how exposure and vulnerability to Covid-19 emerges mainly at the intersection between different dimensions of disadvantage and marginalization. The example of housing and green space provision is used to discuss this general argument in more detail. The article concludes that to overcome the social crisis and justice challenge posed by Covid-19, we have to tackle the underlying structures/mechanisms leading to inequitable outcomes in today's cities, and to re-think the social and justice yardsticks of current urban sustainability and resilience debates and strategies.
本文将新冠疫情视为城市面临的社会危机和正义挑战。它描述了新冠疫情如何凸显了当今世界大多数城市中商品与负担、机会与资源分配不均的问题；不平等和正义挑战既源于危机本身，也源于对危机的一些政策反应，如居家令和经济封锁。它展示了新冠疫情的暴露风险和脆弱性主要出现在不同维度的劣势和边缘化的交叉点上。文章以住房和绿地供应为例，更详细地讨论了这一普遍观点。文章得出结论，要克服新冠疫情带来的社会危机和正义挑战，我们必须应对导致当今城市出现不公平结果的潜在结构/机制，并重新思考当前城市可持续性和复原力辩论及战略中的社会和正义标准。
