Inplacement

Susanna M. Hoffman is a risk and disaster anthropologist, and the author/editor of fourteen books, two ethnographic films, and over forty articles. Among her books are: The Angry Earth (three editions); Disaster Upon Disaster (Berghahn Books, 2019); and the forthcoming Nostalgia, Ecalgia, Topalgia. She launched the Risk and Disaster Group for the Society of Applied Anthropology and for the International Union of Anthropology and Ethnographic Sciences. She was the first recipient of the Fulbright Foundation Aegean Initiative Grant concerning disasters and helped write the United Nations Statement on Women and Disaster.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresA Note on Time and Tense to Our ReadersIntroduction: From Souvlaki to Sequester: The Meaning of Inplacement and the Anthropology of IsolationSusanna M. HoffmanPreamble: Lessons and New Paths in the Study of Disasters and Epidemics: An Anthropological PerspectiveVirginia García-AcostaPart I: Portraits of Place and Inplacement: Anthropologists’ Chronicles of Responses to the Pandemic and IsolationChapter 1. Beyond the Irish Border: A Plague on Both My HousesFiona MurphyChapter 2. Under Lockdown: The Disappearing “Nearby” and Family Rediscovering for Chinese Scholars in the Unmovable FieldWai-wan Vivien Chan, Dongai Chu, Wei Lei, Jieye Xie, and Qiaoyun ZhangChapter 3. Magical Thinking in a Social Context: Serbia’s Response to Covid-19Aleksandar BoškovićChapter 4. Living with Dogs, Walking with Dogs: Inter(personal) Relations During and After the Covid-19 Lockdown in 2020Pedro ToméPart II: Palimpsests of Calamity: When a Pandemic Is Just Another Layer on a Mass of CrisesChapter 5. An Epidemic of Isolation: Reflections on COVID-19, Race, and Class in the United StatesDavid SimmonsChapter 6. Getting Sick Around Here Is a Normal Thing: Uncertainty and Exceptionality in Nairobi Slums, 2020–2022Mercy Gitonga and Joost FonteinChapter 7. The Political Ecology of Covid-19 in Urban and Rural Communities in Belém, BrazilPedro P. M. A. Soares and Luciana A. WilmChapter 8. Rupture, Memory, and Systems of Meaning-Making: Mental and Social Unwellness in Lebanon’s Era of Compounding CrisesSacha MoufarrejPart III: Unanticipated Consequences: Surprise Fallouts from InplacementChapter 9. Dequotidianizing the World: The Pandemic as a Critical Event, Revelations and (Re)interpretationsGustavo Lins RibeiroChapter 10. Enclosures and Exclusion: Transgression of Norms and Reversion to Normal During the Covid-19 Pandemic in IndiaSubhadra Mitra ChannaChapter 11. Gone with the Pandemic: Home Deprivatization, Caregiving Crisis, and Emotional BurnoutSéverine DurinPart IV: Inplacement Anthropology: Doing Ethnography and Ethnology in IsolationChapter 12. Living and Researching from the Margin: Pandemic Times and the Reshaping of the Anthropological SelfMara Benadusi and Roberta RaffaetàChapter 13. Mass Migrations in Cyberspace: A Perspective from NorwayThomas Hylland EriksenConclusion: The Near and Far, Seen and UnseenA. J. FaasIndex