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Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
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This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on
a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional
ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in
real time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than an edited
volume with dedicated chapters, this book thus offers a new format
wherein authors write several, distinct dispatches, each short and
compact, allowing each writer's perspectives and stories to grow,
in tandem with the pandemic itself, over the course of the book.
Leaving behind the trope of the lonely anthropologist, these
authors come together to form a collective of ethnographers to ask
important questions, such as: What does it mean to live and write
amid an unfolding and unstoppable global health and economic
crisis? What are the intensities of the everyday? How do the
isolated find connection in the face of catastrophe? Such
first-person reflections touch on a plurality of themes brought on
by the pandemic, forces and dynamics of pressing concern to many,
such as contagion, safety, health inequalities, societal
injustices, loss and separation, displacement, phantasmal
imaginings and possibilities, the uncertain arts of calculating
risk and protection, limits on movement and travel, and the
biopolitical operations of sovereign powers. The various
writings-spun from diverse situations and global locations-proceed
within a temporal flow, starting in March 2020, with the first
alerts and cases of viral infection, and then move on to various
currents of caution, concern, infection, despair, hope, and
connection that have unfolded since those early days. The writings
then move into 2021, with events and moods associated with the
global distribution of potentially effective vaccines and the
promise and hope these immunizations bring. The written record of
these multiform dispatches involves traces of a series of lives, as
the authors of those lives tried to make do, and write, in trying
times. A timely ethnography of an event that has changed all our
lives, this book is critical reading for students and researchers
of medical anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, contemporary
anthropological theory, and ethnographic writing.
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