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Social Distancing and Loneliness: Community and ‘Oneliness’ in the Age of Coronavirus

Posted on April 6, 2020 by caitlinalder

Blog by Dr Fay Bound Alberti, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Reader in History at the University of York and author of A Biography of Loneliness: the history of an emotion (Oxford University Press, 2019). Like loneliness, Coronavirus has become a global pandemic, and with the introduction of social distancing, these two threats are being conflated. […]

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