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

Ida Wentzel Winther; Nana Clemensen; Karen Ida Dannesboe; Nanna Jordt Jørgensen; Dorte Kousholt

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

Ida Wentzel Winther, Nana Clemensen, Karen Ida Dannesboe, Nanna Jordt Jørgensen, Dorte Kousholt

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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’.

Translated title of the contribution	Nedlukket i felten: Om pandemiske forskningsmetoder og uklare grænser i et kollektivt familiestudie
Original language	English
Journal	Qualitative Research
ISSN	1468-7941
Publication status	Submitted - 4 Sept 2024

Keywords

Covid-19
online ethnography,
researcher positionality
resonans
collective research,

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Familieliv i en coronatid
Winther, I. W. (PI), Dannesboe, K. I. (Participant), Clemensen, N. (Participant), Kousholt, D. (Participant) & Jørgensen, N. J. (Participant)
Velux Foundation
11/03/2020 → 11/03/2024
Project: Research

1 Journal article

Familieliv i krise og forandring. Betydningen af pandemi og klimaforandringer for forældreskabsidealer i Danmark
Jørgensen, N. J., Dannesboe, K. I., Kousholt, D., Clemensen, N. & Winther, I. W., Apr 2024, In: Barn – Forskning om barn og barndom i Norden. 42, 1, p. 6–21
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Together apart in the pandemic field: From ‘being there’ to ‘being with’ in a Covid-19 collective online-ethnographic family study in Denmark. / Winther, Ida Wentzel ; Clemensen, Nana ; Dannesboe, Karen Ida et al.
In: Qualitative Research, 04.09.2024.

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

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Familieliv i krise og forandring. Betydningen af pandemi og klimaforandringer for forældreskabsidealer i Danmark

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