Pandemic Diaries: From the Field

Edited by Gabriela Manley, Bryan M Dougan, and Carole McGranahan

Mar 27, 2020

Cambodia | Everything Isn’t Fine: Chronic Illness and Maintaining the Status Quo in the Time of Covid-19

by Jennifer A. Zelnick

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Photo shot from Psar Orussey, one of Phnom Penh’s many local markets. Cyclos, vans, tuk tuks, and motorbikes crowd the road and obscure the sidewalk, hinting at the unforgiving built environment for physically disabled persons.

Brazil | "We are in a battlefield"- and I Went Online to Make an Ethnography of Capitalism in Crisis

by Ana Flávia Bádue

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Pakistan | Photographing the Virus: Visuality, Publics, and Ethnography during Covid-19

by Zehra Husain

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Honduras, New York | Sirens and Birds and Death: On -Not- Writing A Dissertation During a Pandemic

by Amelia Frank-Vitale

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The police line waiting for the protesters, in January of 2018, when Hernandez was inaugurated for a second, illegal, term. The words "Fuera JOH" are written in graffiti, meaning out with JOH, the initials of Juan Orlando Hernandez.

India | “Humans are like birds”: On Leaving the Field in Times of Crisis

by Silvia Pergetti

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Chile | Questioning Connectivity Life in a “State of Catastrophe”

by Page McClean

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The ferry waiting area on the other side of the fjord is covered in stickers from around the world. Due to lodging and restaurants being closed, the sign recommends that visitors not continue their journey

London | On Home & the Field in a Pandemic

by Bryan M. Dougan

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Nepal | Walking in Metaphors: Snapshot of a Fieldworker in the Time of Covid-19

by Burditt Zackary

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"One of the Shimkyoug, protectors of the dharma.” Photo by author

Russia | A Calm Panic: Thoughts on Beginning Fieldwork in the Russian Far East -RFE- during the Covid-19 Epidemic

by Kamal Kariem

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