Open AccessHeaven on Earth
Author(s) -
Carmen Vallis
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
portal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.125
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 1449-2490
DOI - 10.5130/pjmis.v17i1-2.7411
Subject(s) - heaven , politics , covid-19 , earth (classical element) , white (mutation) , isolation (microbiology) , aesthetics , curfew , history , sociology , environmental ethics , art , literature , philosophy , political science , law , astronomy , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , disease , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , biology , gene , infectious disease (medical specialty)
‘Heaven on earth’ is a creative non-fiction piece which juxtaposes life under lockdown in Sydney 2020 with my experience of curfew in Kashmir in the 1990s. The COVID-19 crisis is explored from the resonances and dissonances across place and time. In this hybrid personal essay, I reflect on how a sense of space is constructed from wealth and community, and how a white, middle-class status benefits from lockdown, juxtaposed against the ongoing political and social isolation of Kashmir.