Entangled Roots and Otherwise Possibilities: An Anthropology of Disasters COVID-19 Research Agenda

Faas, A. J.; Barrios, Roberto E.; García‐Acosta, Virginia; Garriga-López, Adriana; Mattes, Seven; Trivedi, Jennifer

doi:10.17730/1938-3525-79.4.333

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“…In my ongoing research, a clear pattern has emerged illustrating the importance of local voices and perspectives that result in a variety of needs and contexts for disaster response and recovery (e.g., Trivedi 2020a; Trivedi 2020b). That pattern holds true for the range of recoveries from COVID-19 (e.g., Faas et al 2020;Trivedi 2021) and for the different contexts of campuses and their communities. It also echoes other points made here: there is no one-size-fits-all solution.…”

Section: Varied Returns and Recoveriesmentioning

confidence: 66%

Is This Still Triage? Or Are We Back to Teaching?

Trivedi¹

2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted teaching over the past year, pushing many instructors and students into remote learning. These changes have forced new discussions about serious issues with the digital divide and an array of intersectional inequities, and they have prompted conversations about the physical and mental health of everyone involved. While initial transitions to remote learning were treated as distinct from previous in-person or online learning, increasingly we are seeing a push to "return to normal." This essay argues that pandemic recoveries take many forms, and risk and uncertainty must continue to shape our teaching. We must continue to engage with critical issues related to inequity, intersectionality, and broad discussions of health if we are to ensure a safe return.

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Section: Varied Returns and Recoveriesmentioning

confidence: 66%

Is This Still Triage? Or Are We Back to Teaching?

Trivedi¹

2021

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“…The results may highlight or exacerbate existing systemic inequalities of race, class, and gender (Jackson 2011;Schuller 2015), among other vectors, often due to pressures of so-called neoliberalism and disaster capitalism (Klein 2007). In their insightful, timely contribution, Faas et al (2020) propose a research agenda that sees the COVID-19 pandemic as "the product of connections between people, with their social systems, nonhumans, and the material world more broadly" (333). Among salient topics for research, they identify the politics of knowledge, mutual aid, and the process of recovery from the pandemic.…”

Section: Anthropology Of Disastermentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges and Opportunities for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty during the Time of COVID-19

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Garcia³

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In Spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced university instructors across the United States to confront the daunting task of quickly changing their courses from face-to-face to remote instruction. Nationally, universities relied on virtual platforms as they adjusted educational spaces in response to the pandemic. While there have been many anecdotes of how individual faculty responded to this transition, social scientists have yet to study systematically how instructors handled this transition. This article presents and analyzes data from semi-structured interviews with non-tenure-track social science faculty to understand how they handled the change to remote teaching after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyzes these interviews by drawing on intersecting perspectives from the anthropology of disaster, anthropology of education, and digital anthropology. We argue the transition to online teaching presented new challenges and opportunities to instructors as people coping with novel health concerns, family obligations, and space-time changes. Simultaneously, this change created pedagogical issues related to continuity of instruction, classroom presence, and emotional labor. We conclude with recommendations and directions for future research.

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“…However, the early indications are that it is prompting renewed interest in interconnections, networks and the co-construction of persons, agencies and bodies (e.g. Briggs 2020;Faas et al 2020;Hardy 2020;Higgins et al 2020;Kirksey 2020) of the kind often studied by anthropologists of multi-species engagement and the Anthropocene ( Kirksey 2014;Kohn 2007;Tsing 2017), or those influenced by Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and the 'sociology of associations' promoted by Bruno Latour (2005). Anthropology, in other words, seems to be responding to a widely distributed sense of the cardinal significance of relations of all kinds -with both human and non-human entities -to the business of life, and of the responsibilities that these connections imply.…”

Section: Assembling the Politicalmentioning

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Compliance

Rollason

Hirsch

2021

Journal of Legal Anthropology

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What kind of phenomenon is it when ordinary people in the United Kingdom unexpectedly abide by government advice on social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, even anticipating constraints on their activities? These happenings demand that we engage anthropologically with compliance – acts or activities that conform, submit or adapt to rules or to the demands of others. At present, there is no ‘anthropology of compliance’. Rather, the discipline has inherited traditions of thought about compliance – as a necessary aspect of sociability or a morally suspect complicity, demanding resistance. These assumptions remain unexamined, but profoundly shape anthropological scholarship. This introduction aims to show how and why compliance might be a useful heuristic for anthropology. We define compliance as that set of means by which actors strive to accommodate themselves to others in their collective life. We argue that this conception of compliance allows us to multiply the kinds of phenomena we can call ‘political’. It allows us to think about the political constitution of ‘radical’ difference, but to avoid making people identical with their cultural or conceptual worlds. By showing what compliance is and how it operates in and on social life, we ought therefore to be able to recover both specific forms of suffering and inequality and the ways in which social lives are constitutively different.

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Entangled Roots and Otherwise Possibilities: An Anthropology of Disasters COVID-19 Research Agenda

Cited by 20 publications

References 23 publications

Is This Still Triage? Or Are We Back to Teaching?

Is This Still Triage? Or Are We Back to Teaching?

Challenges and Opportunities for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty during the Time of COVID-19

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