12/30/2023 0 Comments Time space compression articleHowever, the COVID-19 quarantine is unique in a number of ways, making it something other and worthy of anthropological reflection. This article seeks to address this issue as it pertains to the COVID-19 pandemic and the social phenomenon of global lockdown through introducing the concept of Quarantime.Īs highlighted, both global infectious disease epidemics and imposed quarantine during them are not new to humanity. Within anthropology, Nancy Munn argues that a problem with ‘time’ is that it is notoriously ‘difficult to find a meta-language to conceptualize something so ordinary and transparent in everyday life’ (1992: 116). Importantly, this enforced restructuring of time may incite us to revisit the relationship that we have with it – a kind of intimacy that in ‘normal’ times may uncritically permeate reality. ![]() Quarantime moves differently than our daily lived temporalities of routine and order, and forces us to question the intimate relationship that we may have with how we structure our daily lives around a clock and a timesheet. In this article, it will be proposed that, far from advocating that we completely scrap the exacerbated and historically incorrect phrase, instead the intonation be changed and that we do away with the determiner ‘an’: we are living through ‘unprecedented time’: Quarantime, a specific phenomenon of time that has not been experienced before in history. ![]() Yet, as Marian Krawczyk (2020) notes, in widening our perspectives through time and space, we see that this is not the case at all: infectious disease epidemics have been co-habiting with human-kind for millennia. ![]() Over the past few months, the notion that we are living through an ‘unprecedented time’ has been re-hashed to exhaustion.
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