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changing, although to what degree and for how long remain to be seen. Of Religious Practice and Community With online religion, the changes in Sunday morning service, Bible study, children's church, funerals, and even musical performances are far

-arranged during this public performance (Hamm 2020) under lockdown. Based on fieldnotes, online communication on the day, open-ended digital strolls and peer-to-peer communication, I constructed a thick description by contextualising ethnographic scenes around

of Pleasure and Performance in Sex Work ’, Sexualities 20 , no. 3 : 344 – 363 , doi: 10.1177/1363460716665781 . 10.1177/1363460716665781 Tabet , P. ( 1987 ), ‘ Du don au tarif: Les relations sexuelles impliquant compensation’ [From donation

informal conversations with people from different strata of Lahore's population illuminate the overarching influence of religion on the way people perceived and dealt with the coronavirus. In this article, I will demonstrate how the performance of

media trend of #stayhome. As individuals share photos and videos of themselves engaged in a variety of ‘responsible’ activities all while #stayinghome, the performance of such acts of social distancing on social media facilitate a form of virtue

the working class and Global South (e.g. Prose 2020 ). Further, these corporeal performances are a form of ‘biopower’: ‘techniques [which achieve] the subjugation of bodies and the control of populations’ ( Foucault 1978: 140 ; and qtd in Sear 2020

exponentially. This is, of course, cruelly ironic, for human touch is central to care professions and professions that entail the performance of caring ( Hochschild 2012 ). The truth of this is borne out in how care sectors, especially those pertaining to people

overcome perceived distances between the self and other through meaningful encounters. The Search for Intimacy People travel for intimacy, physically and metaphorically. This was something that performance artists Ulay and Marina Abramović

in terms of the contrasts to the disciplinary measures to contain contagion during the seventeenth-century plague in a town. While dissimilar in modes, there are certain resonances in the control mechanisms and ‘disorder’ performances which arose

ethnographic witnessing is, as anthropologist and performance artist Gina Athena Ulysse (2015) puts it, a means of engaging the visceral in the structural so that processes of inequality and dehumanisation can be named and challenged. Witnessing is moral