Open Access¿ESTÉTICAS HABITACIONALES DE LA EMERGENCIA?: UNA REFLEXIÓN SOBRE LAS CASAS EN ARGENTINA EN TIEMPOS DE COVID-19.
Author(s) -
María Florencia Blanco Esmoris
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista andaluza de antropología
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2174-6796
DOI - 10.12795/raa.2021.19.08
Subject(s) - certainty , covid-19 , ethnography , sociology , humanities , political science , epistemology , anthropology , philosophy , medicine , disease , pathology , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This paper proposes the notion of housing aesthethics of emergency to highlight the way in which people develop material tactics of certainty through modifying their homes in times of crisis, in this case, related to the Covid-19 virus. To this end, I present some vignettes of my own ethnographic research conducted in the Municipality of Morón (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and references from social anthropology —and beyond— to articulate reflections on housing and the future. Thereby I introduce questions about people’s daily changes and their practical translations. Specifically, how they find certainty ‘in the provisional’, composing specific domestic landscapes. This essay seeks to enhance understanding of how aesthetic production —understood in broader terms— constitutes a mode of living in times of crisis.