Covid
Societal Response To Covid: A Longitudinal Exploration Via Gas Model Of Stress
By: FRESNAL DAS, ANIL JOSE P.S., GAYATHRI VENU JAYA, VARSHA BINOY – This paper explores the general stress response patterns of the masses to the covid pandemic induced situations across three different time periods, in relation to the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) model proposed by Hans Selye. The time periods considered where – when the…
Reflections on resilience
By: FRANCO VIVIANI – In these COVID-19 agitated times the term resilience has gained widespread resonance in scientific texts and in the media. This widely used analogy in the psychological lexicon was borrowed from metallurgy (a metallic beam under stress returns to normal in a short period of time when the stressor is removed). It…
Il campo oltre il luogo: l’etnografia digitale ai tempi del distanziamento sociale
By: CHIARA MUSU – Anthropological knowledge relies on a particular methodology, participant observation. The practice of being in the field for a long time, busy in daily contact with the one’s interlocutors, has become anthropology’s distinctive mark. Nowadays, the challenge of Covid-19 and the obligatory restrictions on sociality dynamics require a rethinking of these theoretical…