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dc.contributor.authorMagnani, Matthew Walker
dc.contributor.authorMagnani, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorVenovcevs, Anatolijs
dc.contributor.authorFarstadvoll, Stein
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-29T10:17:38Z
dc.date.available2021-11-29T10:17:38Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-19
dc.description.abstractGlobal crises drastically alter human behavior, rapidly impacting patterns of movement and consumption. A rapid-response analysis of material culture brings new perspective to disasters as they unfold. We present a case study of the coronavirus pandemic in Tromsø, Norway, based on fieldwork from March 2020 to April 2021. Using a methodology rooted in social distancing and through systematic, diachronic, and spatial analysis of trash (e.g., discarded gloves, sanitization products), signage, and barriers, we show how material perspectives improve understanding of relationships between public action and government policy (in this case examined in relation to the Norwegian concept of collective labor, dugnad). We demonstrate that the materiality of individual, small-scale innovations and behaviors that typified the pandemic will have the lowest long-term visibility, as they are increasingly replaced or outnumbered by more durable representations generated by centralized state and corporate bodies that suggest close affinity between state directive and local action. We reflect on how the differential durability of material responses to COVID-19 will shape future memories of the crisis.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMagnani, Magnani, Venovcevs, Farstadvoll. A contemporary archaeology of pandemic. Journal of Social Archaeology. 2021en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1947235
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/14696053211043430
dc.identifier.issn1469-6053
dc.identifier.issn1741-2951
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/23196
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Social Archaeology
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200en_US
dc.titleA contemporary archaeology of pandemicen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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