While the initial urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic fades, its long-term disruptions continue to reshape societies and individual lives. Covid’s Chronicities captures the global experience of a crisis that has evolved into a persistent state of uncertainty. Based on research from Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, this volume examines how governments and communities have navigated everything from shifting policies to the social and economic aftershocks of the pandemic.
This volume reveals how COVID-19 has exacerbated existing inequalities and exposed deep structural neglect while also highlighting the resilience of communities, such as Indigenous knowledge systems and grassroots mutual aid networks. Tracing the pandemic’s transition from emergency to enduring crisis, the authors offer a sobering yet hopeful analysis of how people continue to remake their worlds in the face of ongoing instability.
394 pages | 14 halftones, 4 figures, 4 tables | 6.14 x 9.21
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
1 Introduction: Care, chronic neglect, and intentional forgetting Nancy J. Burke and Lenore Manderson
2 Fraying and patched homes: Home and homeliness during the pandemic
Tuva B. Broch and Ida Hensler
3 Time and chronicity at the frontline of the pandemic in Japan
Junko Teruyama, Sachiko Horiguchi, Shuhei Kimura and the Covid Primary Care Collaboration
4 How time paused … COVID-19 and everyday life in Viet Nam Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil and Ha Nguyen Thanh
5 Children of Covid
Lisa J.Hardy
6 Overdose, COVID-19, and the unending churn of intervention in Vancouver, Canada
Danya Fast
7 The Numbers Game: Laila, COVID-19, and the Egyptian constitution
Nefissa Naguib
8 Hunger’s Chronicities: Covid and Nutrition in a Mam-Maya Community in Guatemala
Emily Yates-Doerr, Rosario García Meza, and María García Maldonado
9 Chronicities of care: Meso-American Indigenous and undocumented farmworker families during COVID-19
The Covid-19 Farmworker Study Collective with Tomás A. Madrigal, Jennifer Martinez-Medina and Dvera I. Saxton
10 Chronic vulnerability and the long fight of Indigenous Amazonian communities: COVID-19
Indira Vargas, Andrés Tapia and Carolyn Smith-Morris
11 Echoes of the past: Epidemics and resilience among Indigenous peoples of the Upper Rio Negro, Brazil
Carolina Batista, Danilo Paiva Ramos and Rafaela Achatz
12 Covid, post-partum mental health and the decolonization of Indigenous family services
Heather Howard-Bobiwash, Danielle Gartner and Madeline Nash
13 Structured neglect and moral action: Punjabi and Hmong community-based organization pandemic response in California’s San Joaquin Valley
Nancy J. Burke, Premjot K. Saroya and Chia Thao
14 Vaccine trials and the politics of extraction
Lenore Manderson and Susan Levine
15 ‘We’re the health care in the town, pretty much’: Rural community pharmacists and the chronicity of systemic precarity
Laura L. Heinemann and Ellen B. Rubinstein
16 ‘But we want cassava not COVID-19 vaccines’: The politics of vaccination in Uganda
Grace Akello
17 Chronicity of militarism: Sri Lanka’s response to COVID-19 pandemic
Priyanka Jayakodi
18 Beyond COVID-19: Caring by words in Long COVID discourses in Japan and Sweden
Claudia Merli