Lockdown Anthropology and Online Surveys: Unprecedented Methods for Unprecedented Times

Long, Nicholas

doi:10.1177/2321023020963839

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“…Phase 1 involved analysing narratives collected in three online surveys, conducted at Levels 4, 3 and 2 of the lockdown (starting April 2020). These surveys, which were predominantly qualitative (see Long, 2020b), were advertised to the public via word-of-mouth and Facebook ad campaigns, receiving a total of 3,644 valid responses. A follow-up survey in August 2021, which received 1,040 valid responses, also informs our analysis.…”

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Community healthcare workers' experiences during and after COVID‐19 lockdown: A qualitative study from Aotearoa New Zealand

Holroyd

Long

Appleton

et al. 2022

Health Social Care Comm

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Shortly after the COVID‐19 pandemic reached Aotearoa New Zealand, stringent lockdown measures lasting 7 weeks were introduced to manage community spread of the virus. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study examining how lockdown measures impacted upon the lives of nurses, midwives and personal care assistants caring for community‐based patients during this time. The study involved nationwide surveys and in‐depth interviews with 15 registered nurses employed in community settings, two community midwives and five personal care assistants. During the lockdown, nurses, midwives and personal care assistants working in the community showed considerable courage in answering their ‘call to duty’ by taking on heightened care responsibilities and going ‘the extra mile’ to help others. They faced significant risks to personal and professional relationships when they were required to take on additional and complex responsibilities for community‐based patients. Despite the hypervigilant monitoring of their personal protective equipment (PPE), the need to safeguard family and community members generated considerable stress and anxiety. Many also faced personal isolation and loneliness as a result of lockdown restrictions. Moreover, the negative impacts of experiences during lockdown often continued to be felt once restrictions had been lifted, inflecting life during periods in which community transmission of COVID‐19 was not occurring. This article makes five core service delivery and policy recommendations for supporting community‐based nurses, midwives and personal care assistants in respiratory disease pandemics: acknowledging the crucial role played by community‐based carers and the associated stress and anxiety they endured by championing respect and compassion; demystifying the ‘heroism’ or ‘self‐sacrifice’ projected onto care workers; the timely provision of adequate protective equipment; improving remuneration, with adequate provision for time off; and regular counselling, peer support groups and education on work‐life balance delivered by support workers in recognition of stressors arising from these complex and isolated working conditions.

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Community healthcare workers' experiences during and after COVID‐19 lockdown: A qualitative study from Aotearoa New Zealand

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Appleton

et al. 2022

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“…Our survey, which was initially designed as a recruitment tool (not as its own source of anthropological data), also pushed us to think more creatively about how to analyze the quantitative results of our experiment with the open question of race. Anthropologists have traditionally shied away from using survey data, but some argue that these methods will become more common in an era of "lockdown anthropology" (Long 2020). More than a mere substitute for practicing ethnography in contexts in which doing so is deemed impractical, survey methods can be critically adapted to the kind of questions anthropologists ask, which differ in both nature, form, and purpose from those of pollsters and quantitative scientists.…”

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Nonsovereign Racecraft: How Colonialism, Debt, and Disaster are Transforming Puerto Rican Racial Subjectivities

Godreau

Bonilla

2021

American Anthropologist

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Using the concept of "racecraft" to describe the state production of racial subjectivities, we argue that this process has been increasingly compromised in Puerto Rico by a lack of sovereignty and by the current socioeconomic crisis. We argue that the state-sponsored idea that Puerto Rican white and mixed-race identities operate separately from the US racial framework is receding. Based on the unconventional use of an open-ended question for racial identification in a survey administered to over one thousand Puerto Ricans, we found: a reluctance to identify racially, an awareness of a normative "whiteness" that excludes Puerto Ricans, and a tendency to embrace US federal categories such as "Hispanic" and "Latino." We interpret these results as evidence of a Puerto Rican racial state in decline, arguing that the island's debt crisis and compounding disasters have not only eroded the political and economic realms of statecraft but the racial one as well. [census, colonialism, race, identity, statecraft, racial

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“…Participants were also recruited from a database of contacts who had participated in the research team’s previous surveys on experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand – who were themselves recruited via advertising campaigns intended to maximise variation. 36 37 The survey was self-administered and thus unlikely to have been influenced by researcher characteristics. In total, the survey received 1040 valid responses.…”

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Social relationships and activities following elimination of SARS-CoV-2: a qualitative cross-sectional study

Long

Appleton

Davies

et al. 2021

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Objectives To investigate how successfully SARS-CoV-2 elimination strategies fulfil their promise of allowing a return to a "normal" social life, and to identify obstacles and challenges that may inhibit the realisation of this goal. Design Qualitative cross-sectional survey. Setting New Zealand community cohort. Participants 1040 respondents entered the study (18-90 years, M = 48.18.11, SD = 15.52, 76% women). 966 completed the questions relevant to this article. Participants were recruited via online advertisement campaigns designed to maximise variation in the sample as far as practicably possible. Main outcome measures Thematic analysis of participants' narratives. Results A majority of participants reported that the elimination of SARS-CoV-2 had allowed their life to go back to being "more or less the same" as before the pandemic. A small number indicated the pandemic had inspired them to become more social following elimination. Nevertheless, a sizeable minority of respondents reported being less social, even many months after SARS-CoV-2 had been eliminated. This was often because of fears that the virus might be circulating undetected, or because the March-May 2020 lockdown had led to changes in relationships and personal habits that were not easily reversed. Becoming less social was associated with having an underlying health condition that heightened one's vulnerability to COVID-19 (p = 0.00005) and older age (p = 0.007). Conclusions Elimination strategies can successfully allow the public to return to a pre-pandemic "normal" - or reinvent and improve their social lives should they wish. However, such outcomes are not inevitable. Re-establishing social connections after elimination can sometimes be a challenging process, with which people may need support. Plans for providing such support should be an integral part of elimination strategies.

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Lockdown Anthropology and Online Surveys: Unprecedented Methods for Unprecedented Times

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Community healthcare workers' experiences during and after COVID‐19 lockdown: A qualitative study from Aotearoa New Zealand

Community healthcare workers' experiences during and after COVID‐19 lockdown: A qualitative study from Aotearoa New Zealand

Nonsovereign Racecraft: How Colonialism, Debt, and Disaster are Transforming Puerto Rican Racial Subjectivities

Social relationships and activities following elimination of SARS-CoV-2: a qualitative cross-sectional study

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