COVID-19 impacts in the Arctic: anthropological research gaps / ideas?
Dear all, I’m contributing to an expert document on the impacts of COVID-19 in the Arctic. I think it is essential that we highlight research gaps that we…
Tag: COVID-19
Quaran-Teens 2020: Materiality and Production in Pandemic: A High School Perspective
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams were cancelled, they decided they would…
How to Make Sense of “Traditional (Chinese) Medicine” In a Time of Covid-19: Cold War Origin Stories and the WHO’s Role in Making Space for Polyglot Therapeutics by Helen Tilley
Note: I wrote this for anyone trying to “teach the virus,” something I will soon be doing myself. The question in the title is meant to signal that…
Ethical inversions due to COVID-19: Pandemic and local ironies in managing responsibilities by Viviana L. Toro Matuk
On Friday March 21th 2020, the Fula men, who live in the town of Gabu, in the northeast of Guinea-Bissau, did not meet to pray in their mosques.…
The power of bingo during COVID-19 by Carrie Ryan
As lockdowns impose physical distancing, communities are imagining new ways to connect, and there is one surprising, shared tactic communities across the world are using to bolster social…
‘Maybe When All This Is Over Jesus Will Come Back’: Crisis, Post-Crisis And Millenarian Time
GARETH BREEN The Pursuit of the Millennium is an influential book by Norman Cohn. In it, Cohn shows quite precisely how in Medieval times millenarian movements periodically rode…
Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19 – Issue 3 by Eugene Raikhel
May 13 -19, 2020 “Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19” is a weekly compilation of COVID-19-related materials across text, audio, and video formats focused on medical anthropology and neighboring…
Connecting through the Layered Traumas of Fieldwork
By CD Green (Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus series) This billboard is part of an ad campaign that began just after the virus arrived. It has continued…
How Our Behaviour Affects Virus Evolution
DR GUL DENIZ SALALI COVID-19 is caused by the novel coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2), but coronaviruses have been among us for years. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses, and…
Long Read Review: Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts by Frédéric Keck
In Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts, Frédéric Keck offers a new ethnographic study of how human and animal relations are being reshaped in…
The Significance of Covid-19 as Crisis by Marijn Nieuwenhuis
What is the significance of COVID-19? The honest response is that I don’t know which, however, does not prevent me from thinking that it has something crucial to…
Cowboys and Coronavirus: Protesting Covid-19 in ‘The Land of the Free’
ROSIE MATHERS Over the last couple of weeks protests have broken out across America against lockdown measures imposed to reduce the spread and contraction of Covid-19. Rallies across…
Roundtable: “COVID-19: Views from the Field”
We’re wrapping up our five-part series, “COVID-19: Views from the Field,” with a pre-recorded roundtable. This roundtable brought our authors into conversation with each other, acros…
Go Suppress Yourself | A Chronicle by Anthony Stavrianakis
In December 2019, reports emerged of a pneumonia of unknown origin in the city of Wuhan, China. A week into 2020, a novel pathogen was identified–– “severe acute…
The management of the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil and necropolitics: An essay on an announced tragedy by Daniel Granada
In recent years, we have seen cuts in budgets for health, education and social security in Brazil. On the other hand, we have also seen an increase in…
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ‘Co-existing with Covid-19: Moving into the post-pandemic world with the social sciences’
NEW UCL MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY BLOG SERIES In the UK, as across much of the world, we find ourselves moving slowly into a new version of reality: post-quarantine, but…
Abu Dhabi Soundmarks: Building Community in the Midst of the Pandemic, One Voice at a Time
Editor’s note: Click the links throughout the article to experience the soundscape of Abu Dhabi under COVID-19 In March 2020, I arrived in Abu Dhabi from the island…
God’s Daily Briefings: Religious Leadership in a Global Pandemic
TILAK PAREKH The Voice of God Religious leaders possess immense power and influence. Believers may listen to government ministers or public health officials, but, above all, they place…
Memes, Migrants, And The Epidemiological Imagination
JOSH BABCOCK As COVID-19 escalated to officially pandemic proportions early this year, Coronavirus-prevention advice began circulating via Facebook and WhatsApp in Singapore. Mostly in English and…
Quaran-Teens 2020: Familial Belonging in Quarantine: Balancing Personal and Family Identities at Home
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams were cancelled, they decided they would…
Pandemic Predictions- The World Post-Covid-19 for Indian Females
DEVASHREE JUVEKAR As the entire world is grappling with the novel coronavirus pandemic, many experts and researchers have predicted a number of social and economic changes that the…
Caring in the time of corona: Technological possibilities and limitations by Matthew Lariviere
“Now is the moment to put the failures of the past behind us, and set our sights on the NHS being the most cutting-edge system in the world…
Mental Health Avenues Amidst A Global Pandemic: Conceptualising The Biosocial Medical Framework Within Urban ‘Green Spaces’
TIFFANY LOERA Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. This is my morning mantra. As I lay in my bed in the early hours of the morning, I am aware of…
Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19 – Issue 2 by Eugene Raikhel
May 5 -12, 2020 “Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19” is a weekly compilation of COVID-19-related materials across text, audio, and video formats focused on medical anthropology and neighboring …