2020, issue 45, Ellen Annandale and Ana Patrícia Hilário: In this short piece, we reflect on attempts to secure health and prevent illness spread through health behaviour change within a context of entrenched and longstanding inequalities, including those of health. Our concept ‘together apart’ intends to convey both how practices of individual social distancing are being used to protect the collective, and to point to some of the ways in which pre-existing social inequalities set apart the most vulnerable, some of whom, in a two-fold injustice, are at the front-line of wider social protection.
