A pandemic is not a war

COVID‐19 urgent anthropological reflections

in Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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Saiba Varma University of California s2varma@ucsd.edu

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Cover Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
Article Category:
Research Article
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Print Publication Date:
01 May 2020
Online Publication Date:
01 May 2020
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© European Association of Social Anthropologists 2020
Issue Information
EDITORIAL
FORUM ON COVID‐19 PANDEMIC
Introduction
Waiting during the time of COVID‐19
The COVID exception
When rumours fly like helicopters
Towards more equitable global health research in a COVID‐19 world
Raoult, social distancing and the rebelious French ‐ A reflection on COVID‐19 treatments online debates
Viruses beyond epistemic fallacy
Pandemic vitality
‘Home sweet home’
Times and metaphors of pandemics
COVID‐19 and climate change reactions
Dealing with the unexpected
Overlapping values
Citizenship after COVID‐19
Visual art experience during the coronavirus pandemic
From wet markets to Wal‐Marts
Home‐made biopolitics
When the virus makes the timeline
The microbiopolitics of a ‘total‐trans‐species’ social institution
COVID‐19 and spatio‐temporal disjuncture in the experience of danger
‘Virtual choirs’ and the simulation of live performance under lockdown
The China–US blame game
Disaster nativism
Life versus capital
Touch in the new ‘1.5‐metre society’
What does COVID‐19 distract us from? A migration studies perspective on the inequities of attention
‘To all the anti‐vaxxers out there…’
PlastiCorona
The COVID‐19 epidemic through a gender lens
Business as Usual
Science as a virulent myth archive
On the relationship between science and reality in the time of COVID‐19
Compounded disasters
The nation‐state, class, digital divides and social anthropology
Viral living
A return to class solidarity
On epidemiological ruination
COVID‐19 Darwinism
Fortifying breath in this moment of spray
Contagion and memory
‘What is anthropology good for?’ Anthropologists working in public health interstices
Pandemic vulnerabilities, mortality and empathy in fieldwork
Quest for outsmarting fate
The enforced cooling down of an overheated world
Pandemic … or syndemic? Re‐framing COVID‐19 disease burden and ‘underlying health conditions’
On viral concepts
Youth in a viral age
Corona conspiracies
Partying at times of crises and pandemics
The legal void and COVID‐19 governance
COVID‐19 as the primary agent
COVID‐19
(In)human perspectives
Reproductive health in the time of SARS‐CoV‐2
Ethnographic fieldwork quarantined
A GP, a virus and a patient
Whose responsibility? COVID‐19 in a homeless shelter in the UK
COVID‐19 and human–virus relationality
Containing the future shock
Religious returns, ritual changes and divinations on COVID‐19
Public space during COVID‐19
Ground glass
Material methods for a rapid‐response anthropology
The national(ist) necropolitics of masks
The Nation‐State after the Virus
Living inside a globalised Panopticon
From sociality to social distancing
We need each other
Coronavirus
Taking matters into our own hands
Citrus flower
Definitions, differences and inequalities in times of COVID‐19
COVID‐19, dugnad and productive incompleteness
COVID‐19 and competitive markets of securitisation
Metabolic publics
Jishuku, social distancing and care in the time of COVID‐19 in Japan
Looking into the past, living in the future
COVID‐19 testing and the Soviet biowarfare project
Reclaiming the social from ‘social distancing’
The myth of masks
Mutating states
Imagining our futures in different keys
What does it mean to be a good neighbour?
The challenge of breath
Fear of others
Qui habitat
Anthropology and anthropologists in times of crisis
The coronavirus hit us strong
The Curve
The anthropologist amidst and beyond
A pandemic in prisons
Letter from the (un)seen virus
To value or re‐evaluate? On the anthropological perspective of a crisis
All in this together? Isolation and housing in ‘lockdown London’
Document the quotidian transformations of the pandemic
Urban vulnerabilities
Data‐in‐terror
Underestimation/complacency
The anthropology of hot takes
Where have the gatherings gone? Reweaving the social fabric in the time of pandemic and interpersonal distancing
Rethinking states of emergency
Local response to the global pandemic (COVID‐19) in Bangladesh
On the proximity of distancing
Teaching ethnographic methods under COVID‐19
The border and the pandemic
Care/punishment dilemma in COVID‐19 hospital treatment
COVID‐19, malaria and animal spirits
When a crisis is embedded in another crisis
The pandemic present
From sovereignty to governmentality and back
A poetic reflection on the COVID‐19 pandemic
SPECIAL ISSUE ON CROSSING RELIGIOUS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES: THE CASE FOR COMPARATIVE REFLECTION
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