Open Access“L'ENFER, C'EST LES AUTRES”: Proximity as an Ethical Problem during COVID‐19
Author(s) -
STRONG THOMAS,
TRNKA SUSANNA,
WYNN L. L.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cultural anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1548-1360
pISSN - 0886-7356
DOI - 10.14506/ca36.3.01
Subject(s) - covid-19 , closeness , distancing , pandemic , social distance , sociology , aesthetics , philosophy , medicine , virology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
During the COVID‐19 emergency, people around the world are debating concepts like physical distancing, lockdown, and sheltering in place. The ethical significance of proximity—that is, closeness or farness as ethical qualities of relations (Strathern 2020)—is thus being newly troubled across a range of habits, practices, and personal relationships. Through five case studies from Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States, contributors to this Colloquy shed light on what the hype of the pandemic often conceals: the forms of ethical reflection, reasoning, and conduct fashioned during the pandemic.