Crisis, Catastrophe and Long-term Fieldwork with Children

"Crisis" refers to structural processes generally understood to be beyond the control of people but simultaneously expressing people's breach of confidence in the elements that provided relative systemic stability and reasonable expectations for the future. In this understanding, as i...

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Published in:Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 2022-01, Vol.147 (1/2), p.143-148
Main Author: Vignato, Silvia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Catastrophes
Children
Children & youth
Contemporary literature
COVID-19
Crises
Disaster recovery
Disasters
Epistemology
Field study
Humanitarianism
Pandemics
Shortcuts: Crisis Meets Crises
Social networks
Subjective experiences
Tsunamis
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Summary:"Crisis" refers to structural processes generally understood to be beyond the control of people but simultaneously expressing people's breach of confidence in the elements that provided relative systemic stability and reasonable expectations for the future. In this understanding, as in much of the contemporary literature on the subject, the word 'crisis' can be used as a synonym of 'catastrophe'. Here, Vignato describes how, since the pandemic broke out, the tension between ordinary and extraordinary crises has stood out as a major paradigm that informs her epistemological and affective relations with her Acehnese interlocutors. It was when the world was plunged into a shared material and symbolic disaster that the different timelines in the actual and subjective experiences of danger appeared as relevant aspects of her research beyond the specific contingency of the pandemic.
ISSN:0044-2666