How A Pandemic Shapes The City: Ethnographic Voices From South Africa

Archiving the Pandemic
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Archiving the Pandemic

CES (com)vida 2020

Medical Anthropology at UCL

Overview

Eight South African women, in individual and collective work done in confinement and online, comment and analyse the experiences and changes imposed by COVID 19 in their country. The authors point to inequality, the weak network of infrastructure and service provision, the scarcity of water and the high rates of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis, as elements that give South Africa a unique outline for understanding the rapid impact of the pandemic and government imperatives to contain the virus. At a time marked by uncertainty, between emergency and vulnerability, the joint article of these eight women is an exercise in sharing knowledge and resistance.