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Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Robert Desjarlais; Sabina M. Perrino; Joshua O. Reno; Nicholas Bartlett; Aurora Donzelli; Margaux Fitoussi; Alexa Hagerty; Rafadi Hakim; Parthiban Muniandy; Emily Ng is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic about?

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 calculati

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Author

Robert Desjarlais; Sabina M. Perrino; Joshua O. Reno; Nicholas Bartlett; Aurora Donzelli; Margaux Fitoussi; Alexa Hagerty; Rafadi Hakim; Parthiban Muniandy; Emily Ng

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9783031191923

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Social Science, Medical