Walking the Dog in Madrid During the Pandemic

The relationships we humans form with our pets condition the spaces we inhabit and how we move around in them. This article discusses relations between humans and their dogs in the city of Madrid during the Covid‐19 lockdown. As an emergency ethnography, this article shows how, in this context, dogs...

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Published in:Anthropology Today 2020-10, Vol.36 (5), p.24-25
Main Author: Tomé, Pedro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
COVID-19
Dogs
Ethnography
Narrative
Pandemics
Pets
Walking
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Summary:The relationships we humans form with our pets condition the spaces we inhabit and how we move around in them. This article discusses relations between humans and their dogs in the city of Madrid during the Covid‐19 lockdown. As an emergency ethnography, this article shows how, in this context, dogs can become the centre of relations between neighbours, facilitating or worsening them, creating new problems and simplifying others.
ISSN:0268-540X
1467-8322
DOI:10.1111/1467-8322.12607