“From exit strategies to social justice: a focus on the Covid- 19 crisis”

While the global society is coping with the harshest consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a not-negligible risk that the ongoing crisis will radicalize the individual propensity to elaborating exit strategies in response to societal challenges. If this is the case, distance losses, intended as the costs charged on individuals due to their being distant from an ideal-type or an expected performance, may be key explanatory variables of unobserved opportunistic behaviours, apparent (but not real) lack of commitment to a common strategy, and episodes of over- and under- resource exploitation. Consequently, due to their proximity to people’s social attitudes and needs, the Social and Solidarity economy may play a crucial role in identifying social and territorial distances and in assessing the related monetary and non-monetary costs charged on individuals.