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05/10/20
 
About Curare Corona Diaries
A Collection of Diaries in the Strict Sense of the Term
On March 18, 2020, the editorial team of Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology launched a call for (auto-) ethnographic Corona Diaries in the strict sense of the term which record what is happening in one’s own environment. More than 100 authors from at least 25 different countries participated in the project. The diaries will be […]
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Eliana Otta Vildoso
03/11/21
“There’s enough theory around us, but not enough hands politicizing gestures of care.”
Athens, Greece, 22 March – 1 July 2020
I am a Peruvian artist, living between Athens and Vienna, doing a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, with a project about possible ways to collectivize processes of mourning connected to the crisis in Greece. Because of this, I’ve been following the news about these three countries and am in constant communication with […]
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Emma Lou
12/10/21
“Mir kommt Europa im Vergleich zu Asien momentan wirklich primitiv vor.”
Regensburg, Germany, 23 March - 30 June 2020
Ich bin 29 Jahre alt und wohne seit 2014 in Regensburg. Im Januar 2020 habe ich meine letzte Prüfung abgeschlossen, seitdem schreibe ich meine Masterarbeit in der Sozialen Arbeit von zuhause aus. Bis Februar habe ich dazu auch die Regensburger Unibibliothek, Hochschulbibliotheken und Staatliche Bibliothek genutzt, um dort zu arbeiten, Bücher auszuleihen und einzuscannen. Gerade […]
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Patricia Sänger
08/10/21
„Merke, dass jede Interaktion mit Fremden auf der Straße mehr Bedeutung erhält.“
Würzburg, Germany, 23 March – 15 April 2020
Ich bin Studentin in der Museologie und habe mein letztes Semester im Ausland studiert. Aufgrund der Pandemie musste ich am 17. März, 10 Tage vor dem geplanten Rückflug, das Land verlassen. Zurückgekommen bin ich in eine neue WG: ein beinahe leeres Zimmer, eine unbekannte Mitbewohnerin. Bereits eine halbe Woche nach meiner Ankunft in Deutschland, wurden […]
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Natalie Wind
23/07/21
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned about crisis, it’s that it usually comes hand in hand with absurdity.”
Germany, Freiburg, 19 March 2020 – 27 June 2020
At the time of beginning the diary: 21-year-old female student of cultural anthropology, living in student housing in Freiburg, Germany. Normally sharing accommodations with 3 flatmates, currently alone in the flat. Planning on remaining in isolation apart from grocery shopping until at least April.   19.03.2020 I spent a lot of time running errands outside […]
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Inga Scharf da Silva
25/06/21
„Ist die Corona-Zeit eine Episode oder eine echte gesellschaftliche Transition zu einer veränderten Realität?“
Berlin, 19. März – 30. Juni 2020
Ich bin eine 48-jährige Frau und lebe mit meiner Familie – meinem Mann und unserem 15-jährigen Sohn – in Wilmersdorf im Zentrum von Berlin. Da ich eine seltene maligne, systemische Tumorerkrankung habe und chronisch krank bin, bin ich schon vor den Museen- und Schulschließungen und den späteren Kontaktbeschränkungen, die von der deutschen Bundesregierung wegen der […]
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Sarah Fletcher
16/06/21
“The privilege of a yard is something that I will no longer take for granted.”
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 19 March – 2 June 2020
  Local Context/ Stats Update: I am in Victoria, BC Canada. As we live on a (large) Island, for a long time it felt like we might remain untouched. Last week this changed; the first case of COVID-19 was identified in the region on 11 March. As of yesterday there are now 12 confirmed cases. […]
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Grace W.
09/06/21
“Feeling guilty/embarrassed that I like the lockdown so much.”
France, 2 March – 15 June 2020
I am a medical and dance anthropologist. I am Dutch but lived and worked in the UK since 2006, got my PhD there in 2013, two postdocs since 2014 of which the last one changed into a permanent contract. My partner is French, and I moved to France in 2018, with permission of my boss […]
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Martina Madaula Munt
27/05/21
“I miss the freedom to think anything can be possible.”
Valldoreix, Barcelona province, Spain, 18 March – 1 May 2020
I graduated from the Master’s program Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Just a few weeks ago, at the beginning of this month I decided to move back to my hometown, Barcelona. I had graduated and I had a few social projects I wanted to undertake back home. Most of them were […]
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Susan Mossman Riva
09/05/21
“Living in a chalet in the Alps makes hunkering down liveable.”
Great Britain, USA, La Tzoumaz, Switzerland, 20 March – 25 June 2020
I was born on July 5, 1963 and raised in Omaha Nebraska. I attended the University of Colorado in Boulder. In 1981, the summer before beginning my university studies, I was an exchange student in the French speaking part of the Swiss Alps in Sion. I met my husband during that summer. We married in […]
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Carole Ammann
02/02/21
“Wenn man an einem neuen Ort kaum vernetzt ist und dann so etwas geschieht, fühlt man sich doppelt abgekapselt.”
Niederlande, Amsterdam, 16. März - 16. Juni 2020
Anthropologist, postdoctoral researcher, University of Amsterdam. In January 2020, my family and I moved from Switzerland to the Netherlands with a postdoctoral mobility fellowship (for two years) to start a new research project entitled ‘Doing Fatherhood in the 21st Century: Connecting the Global North and the Global South’. The project’s aims are to find out […]
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