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My Room With a World View: Aging and the Paradoxes of Covid 19

Author(s) -

Annabelle Sreberny

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

qualitative inquiry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.906

H-Index - 80

eISSN - 1552-7565

pISSN - 1077-8004

DOI - 10.1177/1077800420962489

Subject(s) - autoethnography , covid-19 , hubris , aesthetics , anecdote , politics , distressing , sociology , ivory tower , psychology , political science , gender studies , history , medicine , law , visual arts , art , disease , pathology , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , classics

The challenge of autoethnography is using my personal experience to explore broader social and political themes and to find a subjective voice to make sense of the impact of the Covid 19 lockdown. Using the optic of aging, I explore how I accommodated to quarantine life. Sitting and letting the world swirl around me in my house, I explore the altered physical and mental spaces in which I lived. Despite my own privileges, I have felt vulnerable and frightened but I have also felt angry and frustrated at the hubris and incompetence with which this crisis has been handled.

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