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Kuiper, Gerda ORCID: 0000-0002-9663-4838 . Emotional risk assessments in the field: Leaving Tanzania during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ethnography. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1741-2714

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Abstract

This article provides a narrative account of one anthropologist's experiences in the field at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The account is based on the researcher's field diary and digital communication, supplemented by online news reports from the period March to May 2020. The researcher's emotional assessments of the risks that COVID-19 posed to herself and others around her stood in sharp contrast to the way her interlocutors in the field responded to the virus. The article makes a case for the empirical value of a researcher's emotions, especially in moments of confusion and feelings of disconnection, in order to understand varying risk perceptions. This article moreover draws attention to the experiences of people living outside the initial epicentres of the pandemic. Many Tanzanians perceived COVID-19 as just one risk among many in their already uncertain daily lives.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Kuiper, Gerda UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-9663-4838 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-565374
DOI:	10.1177/14661381211002856
Journal or Publication Title:	Ethnography
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1741-2714
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Anthropology; Sociology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56537