Fearful Intimacies

IF 1.1 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology in Action-Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI:10.3167/aia.2020.270205

Carmen McLeod, Eleanor Hadley Kershaw, Brigitte Nerlich

引用次数: 6

Abstract

This article explores how COVID-19 could be reshaping human–microbial relations in and beyond the home. Media sources suggest that intimacies of companionability or ambivalence are being transformed into those of fearfulness. While a probiotic sociocultural approach to human–microbial relations has become more powerful in recent times, it seems that health and hygiene concerns associated with COVID-19 are encouraging the wholesale use of bleach and other cleaning agents in order to destroy the potential microbial ‘enemies’ in the home. We provide a brief background to shifting public health discourses on managing microbes in domestic settings over recent decades across the industrialised world, and then contrast this background with emerging advice on COVID-19 from news and advertisement sources. We conclude with key areas for future research.

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害怕亲密

本文探讨了COVID-19如何在家庭内外重塑人类与微生物的关系。媒体资料显示，友好或矛盾的亲密关系正在转变为恐惧。虽然益生菌社会文化方法近年来对人类微生物关系的影响越来越大，但与COVID-19相关的健康和卫生问题似乎正在鼓励大量使用漂白剂和其他清洁剂，以摧毁家中潜在的微生物“敌人”。我们简要介绍了近几十年来工业化国家关于家庭环境中微生物管理的公共卫生论述的变化背景，然后将这一背景与新闻和广告来源中关于COVID-19的新建议进行了对比。最后提出了未来研究的重点领域。

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来源期刊

Anthropology in Action-Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

3.10

自引率

7.10%

发文量

审稿时长

24 weeks

期刊介绍： Anthropology in Action (AIA) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews in applied anthropology. Contributions reflect the use of anthropological training in policy- or practice-oriented work and foster the broader application of these approaches to practical problems. The journal provides a forum for debate and analysis for anthropologists working both inside and outside academia and aims to promote communication amongst practitioners, academics and students of anthropology in order to advance the cross-fertilisation of expertise and ideas. Recent themes and articles have included the anthropology of welfare, transferring anthropological skills to applied health research, design considerations in old-age living, museum-based anthropology education, cultural identities and British citizenship, feminism and anthropology, and international student and youth mobility.