. Michael Herzfeld's (2016) anthropological concept of cultural intimacy tackles the relationship between the official national narrative and ‘aspects of cultural identity that are considered a source of external embarrassment but that nevertheless provide
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Physically Distant – Socially Intimate
Reflecting on Public Performances of Resistance in a Pandemic Situation
Marion Hamm
Andrew Dawson
personal nationalisms ( Cohen 1996 ), the relationship between national identities within oneself. In the manner of so much lockdown anthropology, this is an auto-ethnography ( Reed-Danahay 1997 ), which considers my experience of being an immigrant from
Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins
Welsh identities, not legal nationalities, and the 24,000 tax-registered second homes in Wales are neither classified nor classifiable by national ownership. But insofar as statistics storied the where of death and diagnosis, a view of the nation
‘No Virus Is Stronger than Our Unity’
Shifting Forms of Governmental Intimacies during COVID-19
Senem Kaptan
motivational narratives that convey and encourage pride in the Turkish national identity. Through mention of Turkey's aid of medical supplies sent abroad, Erdoğan's Eid letter, for instance, offers a bold critique of international politics by stating that ‘in a
Gender, Leadership and Representative Democracy
The Differential Impacts of the Global Pandemic
Kim Rubenstein, Trish Bergin, and Pia Rowe
Introduction The need for effective leadership is heightened during times of national crisis. What is more, the impact and effect of that leadership is not only in the capacity to make wise decisions, but also in the consequences for the
Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne
the character of national belonging that almost magically veils internal inequalities by way of some imagined ‘horizontal comradeship’. Simultaneously, such ‘imagined communities’ transform the arbitrary into something chiselled in stone. Chance
Scientific Intimacy
The Changing Relationship with Medical Data at the Time of COVID-19 pandemic
Elżbieta Drążkiewicz
the national health agency is located inside. The location and the modest interior all suggest that the HPSC, while playing an important role in controlling disease in the country, does not enjoy the esteem of other high-profile institutions. I had
Pandemic Passages
An Anthropological Account of Life and Liminality during COVID-19
Genevieve Bell
innovation institute at the Australian National University. The 3A Institute's mission is to establish a new branch of engineering to help shape the future safely, sustainably and responsibly. This represents a different kind of innovation for the university
‘Everybody's Always Here with Me!’
Pandemic Proximity and the Lockdown Family
Hannah McNeilly and Koreen M. Reece
, bracing themselves for major changes in their working lives and trying to prepare their households to face a disease no-one understood. Three days later, on 23 March, Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared a national lockdown and instructed the people of
Andrew Dawson and Simone Dennis
his analysis) is the nation. In this respect, Herzfeld's concept of cultural intimacy is especially productive and telling. Contra relational theories which define the identity of the nation (and/or ethnic group) as an outcome of its juxtaposition