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Bringing together theoretical, ethnographic, and internationally contributed chapters, this book introduces a tripartite approach to anthropology. It highlights the need to study individuals alongside customary groups, to examine persons sequestered within their socio-cultural contexts amid changing global circumstances, and to reflect on one’s own society. Drawing on the Covid-19 lockdown, Contributors discuss their own experiences of in-placement. The volume also considers how epidemics qualify as disasters within the risk field and asks whether certain long-established postulations may now be outdated.
Susanna M. Hoffman is a risk and disaster anthropologist, and the author/editor of fourteen books, two ethnographic films, and over forty articles. Among her books are: The Angry Earth (three editions); Disaster Upon Disaster (Berghahn Books, 2019); and the forthcoming Nostalgia, Ecalgia, Topalgia. She launched the Risk and Disaster Group for the Society of Applied Anthropology and for the International Union of Anthropology and Ethnographic Sciences. She was the first recipient of the Fulbright Foundation Aegean Initiative Grant concerning disasters and helped write the United Nations Statement on Women and Disaster.
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
A Note on Time and Tense to Our Readers
Introduction: From Souvlaki to Sequester: The Meaning of Inplacement and the Anthropology of Isolation
Susanna M. Hoffman
Preamble: Lessons and New Paths in the Study of Disasters and Epidemics: An Anthropological Perspective
Virginia García-Acosta
Part I: Portraits of Place and Inplacement: Anthropologists’ Chronicles of Responses to the Pandemic and Isolation
Chapter 1. Beyond the Irish Border: A Plague on Both My Houses
Fiona Murphy
Chapter 2. Under Lockdown: The Disappearing “Nearby” and Family Rediscovering for Chinese Scholars in the Unmovable Field
Wai-wan Vivien Chan, Dongai Chu, Wei Lei, Jieye Xie, and Qiaoyun Zhang
Chapter 3. Magical Thinking in a Social Context: Serbia’s Response to Covid-19
Aleksandar Bošković
Chapter 4. Living with Dogs, Walking with Dogs: Inter(personal) Relations During and After the Covid-19 Lockdown in 2020
Pedro Tomé
Part II: Palimpsests of Calamity: When a Pandemic Is Just Another Layer on a Mass of Crises
Chapter 5. An Epidemic of Isolation: Reflections on COVID-19, Race, and Class in the United States
David Simmons
Chapter 6. Getting Sick Around Here Is a Normal Thing: Uncertainty and Exceptionality in Nairobi Slums, 2020–2022
Mercy Gitonga and Joost Fontein
Chapter 7. The Political Ecology of Covid-19 in Urban and Rural Communities in Belém, Brazil
Pedro P. M. A. Soares and Luciana A. Wilm
Chapter 8. Rupture, Memory, and Systems of Meaning-Making: Mental and Social Unwellness in Lebanon’s Era of Compounding Crises
Sacha Moufarrej
Part III: Unanticipated Consequences: Surprise Fallouts from Inplacement
Chapter 9. Dequotidianizing the World: The Pandemic as a Critical Event, Revelations and (Re)interpretations
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
Chapter 10. Enclosures and Exclusion: Transgression of Norms and Reversion to Normal During the Covid-19 Pandemic in India
Subhadra Mitra Channa
Chapter 11. Gone with the Pandemic: Home Deprivatization, Caregiving Crisis, and Emotional Burnout
Séverine Durin
Part IV: Inplacement Anthropology: Doing Ethnography and Ethnology in Isolation
Chapter 12. Living and Researching from the Margin: Pandemic Times and the Reshaping of the Anthropological Self
Mara Benadusi and Roberta Raffaetà
Chapter 13. Mass Migrations in Cyberspace: A Perspective from Norway
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Conclusion: The Near and Far, Seen and Unseen
A. J. Faas
Index