https://emsenn.net/tags/covid19/ Recent content in COVID19 on emsenn.net Hugo en-us Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/humanities/domains/sociology/domains/critical-theory/domains/anarchism/domains/disaster-response/domains/emergent-disaster-response/texts/covid-19-mutual-aid-as-long-haul-disaster-response/ Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/humanities/domains/sociology/domains/critical-theory/domains/anarchism/domains/disaster-response/domains/emergent-disaster-response/texts/covid-19-mutual-aid-as-long-haul-disaster-response/ <p>COVID-19 mutual-aid formations are an important extension of emergent disaster response because they show how grassroots disaster relief works under long-haul conditions rather than only after a sudden-impact event. The pandemic created a crisis that was distributed across time and space, but communities still built decentralized systems for food, medicine, transport, information, testing, and care where official systems failed or could not be trusted [@carstensen2021; @knearem2024].</p> <p>Within this school, COVID mutual aid matters because it demonstrates that emergent disaster response is not limited to storms, floods, or fires. It can also arise around slower crises whose emergency is social and infrastructural as much as meteorological.</p>