Life Under Lockdown
From 2020 to 2022, I explored various facets of life under lockdown in Aotearoa/NZ. My primary focus was on the experiential facets of Covid-19 restrictions, culminating in a special co-edited colloquy in Cultural Anthropology and my MAT article, “Reconsidering the Declaration of ‘Crisis,’ while Living through One,” as well as examinations of how citizens are not merely passive recipients of lockdown measures but may take an active role in constituting states of emergency (see my special issue of Anthropology Forum, and my articles, “From Lockdown to Rāhui and Teddy Bears in Windows” and "Rethinking States of Emergency”.
Focusing more globally, I have explored how Czechs managed to engage in mandatory wearing of face masks when there weren’t enough face masks to go around and the meanings of citizens; involvements in "pandemic policing."
PUBLICATIONS
Edited Journal Issues
2022. Imagination, the Ordinary and the Extraordinary: COVID-19 in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Double special issue of Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology. Co-edited with Sanchita Vyas.
Articles and Book Chapters
2024. Long, Nicholas J. et al. “On Epidemiological Consciousness and COVID-19: Envisioning Vulnerability, Hazard, and Public Health Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.” One of 15 co-authors. How to Live through a Pandemic. Eds. Simone Abram, Helen Lambert, and Jude Robinson. Abingdon, Oxon ad NY: Routledge. Pp. 20-39.
2022. “‘Protecting Our Most Vulnerable’: Vaccination Targets, Situated Knowledges, and the Needs of People with Disabilities during New Zealand’s COVID-19 Lockdown.” Co-authored with Luca Muir. COVID-19: Volume III: Surviving a
Pandemic. Ed. J. Michael Ryan. New York: Routledge.
2022. “‘Being There’ during Lockdown: A Phenomenological Perspective on Ethnography of the Pandemic Present and Research Methods for the Future.” Co-authored with L.L. Wynn. A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society. Ed. Steve Matthewman. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. PP. 175-194.
2021. “Blowing Bubbles: Covid-19, New Zealand’s Bubble Metaphor, and the Limits of Households as Sites of Responsibility and Care.” Co-authored with Sharyn Davies. In J. Michael Ryan, ed. Covid-19: Global Pandemic, Societal Responses, Ideological Solutions. London: Routledge. Pp. 167-183.