Together apart in the pandemic field: From ‘being there’ to ‘being with’ in a Covid-19 collective online-ethnographic family study in Denmark

TY - JOUR

T1 - Together apart in the pandemic field

T2 - From ‘being there’ to ‘being with’ in a Covid-19 collective online-ethnographic family study in Denmark

AU - Winther, Ida Wentzel

AU - Clemensen, Nana

AU - Dannesboe, Karen Ida

AU - Jørgensen, Nanna Jordt

AU - Kousholt, Dorte

PY - 2024/9/4

Y1 - 2024/9/4

N2 - Researching lockdown family life ‘from within’ during Covid-19 in a collective online-ethnographic study brought us insights on living in a global health crisis. While we physically never left our respective homes during fieldwork, we felt a vibrant connection emerge between us and our informants as well as within our research group, spurred by the radical change of life and societal circumstances we all underwent. Using Hartmut Rosa’s sociology of world-relations and his concepts of resonance and world appropriation, we explore how the pandemic brought new methodological reflections for times of uncertainty and discuss the epistemological potential of rethinking anthropology’s classical methodological imperative of ‘being there’.

AB - Researching lockdown family life ‘from within’ during Covid-19 in a collective online-ethnographic study brought us insights on living in a global health crisis. While we physically never left our respective homes during fieldwork, we felt a vibrant connection emerge between us and our informants as well as within our research group, spurred by the radical change of life and societal circumstances we all underwent. Using Hartmut Rosa’s sociology of world-relations and his concepts of resonance and world appropriation, we explore how the pandemic brought new methodological reflections for times of uncertainty and discuss the epistemological potential of rethinking anthropology’s classical methodological imperative of ‘being there’.

KW - online etnografi

KW - kollektiv metode

KW - hjemmeforskning

KW - familieliv

KW - etik

KW - Covid-19

KW - online ethnography,

KW - researcher positionality

KW - resonans

KW - collective research,

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1468-7941

JO - Qualitative Research

JF - Qualitative Research

ER -