Abstract

SEGURA, Ramiro. Anthropology, pandemic and city. Notes on distance in anthropological research in urban contexts. Cuad. antropol. soc. [online]. 2023, n.57, pp.25-40.  Epub May 01, 2023. ISSN 1850-275X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34096/cas.i57.12625.

This article reflects on the distance in anthropological research in urban contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina. On the one hand, physical distance has been at the center of the spatiotemporal regulations deployed by various agents to slow down infections and minimize the deleterious effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the other hand, while daily life in cities was rapidly transformed, these regulations -as a sign of the symmetry between daily life and anthropological research- made it difficult to make an anthropological approach based on proximity, prolonged stay, and even co-residence during fieldwork of the social experience of the pandemic to understand its differential impacts on urban life. Based on the results obtained in a set of collective explorations during the pandemic, the article reflects on distance as a product of social practices and a field of struggles both in urban life and in anthropology.

Keywords : Distance; Pandemic; City; Otherness; Fieldwork.

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