TY - JOUR
T1 - Zooming in on COVID: The intimacies of screens, homes and learning hierarchies
AU - Roth, Adam
AU - Ranjan, Niroshnee
AU - King, Grace
AU - Homayun, Shamim
AU - Hendershott, Rebecca
AU - Dennis, Simone
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This article is a result of the way in which the design of a first-year anthropology course attempted to undo stern structural hierarchies between students and teachers. Instead, the participants regarded one another as fellow anthropologists undertaking ethnographic research on the university context. This article examines the intimate relations that came available to participants when the course moved from in-person to Zoom format. Participants moved into homes to document the unfurling COVID-19 crisis, (back) into intimate familial relations. But this was not the only intimacy with which participants had to grapple anthropologically. The lecture materials, too, connected themselves to things and experiences in immediacy as they arrived into homes through laptop screens. The screens themselves offered up new insights into the lives of others - something newly minted anthropologists had to account for as they completed the course.
AB - This article is a result of the way in which the design of a first-year anthropology course attempted to undo stern structural hierarchies between students and teachers. Instead, the participants regarded one another as fellow anthropologists undertaking ethnographic research on the university context. This article examines the intimate relations that came available to participants when the course moved from in-person to Zoom format. Participants moved into homes to document the unfurling COVID-19 crisis, (back) into intimate familial relations. But this was not the only intimacy with which participants had to grapple anthropologically. The lecture materials, too, connected themselves to things and experiences in immediacy as they arrived into homes through laptop screens. The screens themselves offered up new insights into the lives of others - something newly minted anthropologists had to account for as they completed the course.
U2 - 10.3167/AIA.2021.280113
DO - 10.3167/AIA.2021.280113
M3 - Article
VL - 28
SP - 67
EP - 72
JO - Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
JF - Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
IS - 1
ER -