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Corona crisis: local
perspectives of a global challenge
The beginning of the Coronavirus
pandemic has marked a significant change in ZMO's work routine. Not only
is everyone working from home now, but also visits to conferences are
cancelled and no one knows when it is possible to conduct fieldwork
again, a central part of ZMO-based research. However, we continue to be
strongly connected to our regions of research (some of us are on site).
As we are in exchange with colleagues, friends and interlocutors, we are
following closely to what extend the Corona pandemic and the subsequent
health and economic crisis is affecting people’s experience in their
everyday lives, how the state intervenes and regulates, and what else is
changing. As scholars of the humanities and social sciences we do not
contribute to research on the virus in scientific and medical terms, but
we can contribute by adding certain critical and historical perspectives
to the discussion, as well as information about specific social contexts
as they are experienced by people in the regions. Adding such kinds of
insights, commentaries, and reflections on the corona crisis, both on and
from our regions of research, and making them accessible, we think, is
itself a valuable contribution to the understanding of the current crisis
as a complex and locally specific global phenomenon. It is by no means
certain what the experiences of the Global South will be and we underline
the openness of what we are currently imagining to witness.
We have asked our researchers,
colleagues, alumni and former academic visitors to share with us their
thoughts, observations, reflections and first reports in this unique
situation. All contributions that have reached us so far are listed below
and on our Website.
We highly recommend the thematic blogs from our partner institutions, the
blog of the project "Religious Matters in an Entangled
World"
at Utrecht University and the blog “Medizinethnologie”.
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