Mondada2020d

From emcawiki
Jump to: navigation, search
Mondada2020d
BibType ARTICLE
Key Mondada2020d
Author(s) Lorenza Mondada, Julia Bänninger, Sofian Bouaouina, Guillaume Gauthier, Philipp Hänggi, Mizuki Koda, Hanna Svensson, Burak S. Tekin
Title Changing social practices: Covid-19 and new forms of sociality
Editor(s)
Tag(s) EMCA, Covid-19, greetings, embodiment, video
Publisher
Year 2020
Language English
City
Month
Journal Ethnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa
Volume 13
Number 2
Pages 217-232
URL Link
DOI 10.3240/97807
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title
Chapter

Download BibTex

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected not only human health, but also central aspects of human sociality. This study shows how it is possible to document change in embodied interactional practices thanks to video-recorded data collected during ethnographic fieldwork. It presents the first findings of a larger project initiated at the beginning of March 2020 on Human Sociality in the Age of Covid-19, aiming at showing how the pandemic affects not only the bio-physiological body, but also the social body, and how this reveals fundamental principles of human sociality. The analyses focus on greetings, an elementary practice through which the interactional order is established: it is shown how greetings rapidly changed at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, and how this enables one to understand both the importance of proximity and tactility in human sociality, as well as the quick pace of change-in-the-making, as oriented to, experienced and creatively accomplished by the participants.

Notes