33 Days in Lockdown: Covid-19 Reflections from New Zealand

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  • Susanna Helen Trnka

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https://doi.org/10.11157/sites-id460

Abstract

New Zealand’s 33-day, ‘level 4 lockdown’ in response to covid-19 invites anthropological reflection across a number of themes. What follows are extracts of an online anthropological diary examining the first month of the crisis as it unfolded, suggesting how social and political responses to the pandemic invite reflection upon anthropological concepts as diverse as states of emergency; healing spaces; embodiment and movement; soundscapes; the constitution of collective affect; crises and historical temporality; museum artefacts; globalism; collective pain; surveillance; and imagined biographies.

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12-03-2021

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Trnka, S. H. (2021). 33 Days in Lockdown: Covid-19 Reflections from New Zealand. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.11157/sites-id460

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2020): General Issue

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