touristic practices. It examines the importance of intimacy to constructions of tourism experiences and reflects on how the COVID-19 global pandemic of 2020 has the potential to transform those experiences. I begin by briefly exploring the complexity of what
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Latin America and COVID-19
Political Rights and Presidential Leadership to the Test
Brigitte Weiffen
The COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Latin America at a moment when democracy was already sailing in treacherous waters. According to the Varieties of Democracy data, the region's democracies have seen an erosion of political liberties, the protection
In Democratic Theory
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Article Commentary
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- 61–68 (8 total)
COVID-19 and Uncertain Intimacy
State–Society Relations in Urban China and Beyond
Jialing Luo
On 7 April 2020, China reported zero new deaths from COVID-19 for the first time since the National Health Commission started to publish its figures in January. 1 On the following day, 8 April, the quarantine of the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan
Child Protection Social Work in COVID-19
Reflections on Home Visits and Digital Intimacy
Sarah Pink, Harry Ferguson, and Laura Kelly
's intimate spaces, bodies and sensory, physical and emotional worlds, technologies and non-human companions ( Ferguson 2018 ). The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted these taken-for-granted practices and presented governments, social work leaders, managers and
Marla Frederick, Yunus Doğan Telliel, and Heather Mellquist Lehto
COVID-19, Religious Markets, and the Black Church Marla Frederick My Facebook timeline lit up in early April. The picture kept appearing in post after post from close friends and respected colleagues. Regardless of whose timeline it came
Art Gallery Education in New Zealand during COVID-19
The Emergence of a Community of Practice
Esther Helen McNaughton
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic brought art gallery 1 educators in Aotearoa New Zealand together in an unprecedented way. This group met nationally by Zoom at three critical points from mid-March to mid-June 2020, enabling mutual support to rise to a
Gideon Lasco
garnered over 2,300 live attendees, would set the tone for anthropological responses throughout the COVID-19 outbreak in the country, from the moment the first case was reported on 30 January 2020 up to the time of writing. For the first six weeks, the
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2022
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- 23–31 (9 total)
Embedded Social Science and the British Government COVID-19 Response
An Ethnographic Study
Alex Tasker and Lucy C. Irvine
central government for the generation of new policy ideas ( Allen and Bull 2018 ). The current SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated unprecedented levels of research across multiple fields, yet there remains a significant lack of knowledge around
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Mar 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 60–68 (9 total)
Jonathan Skinner
north on the island time and time again; pyroclastic mudflows reshaping the surface of the south entirely. In times of COVID-19, the crisis is more covert: it can be resting on a surface, floating on a droplet, lurking in a skin fold. It can't be seen
Weiqiang Lin
become one of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century. 1 However, the COVID-19 pandemic has today presented a major threat to air travel like no other event ever did. The 1973 and 1979 Oil Crises, the September 11 terror attacks, Severe Acute