Tagged: Luna Dolezal

By Luna Dolezal Social distancing has dislodged all human bodies from the usual taken-for-granted fabric of embodied social relations, leading to a repertoire of interaction rituals that are increasingly dominated by fear and mistrust. In this article, I explore some of the experiential consequences of social distancing, considering face-to-face interaction and interactions mediated by telepresence […]

By Luna Dolezal Political and media messages about the COVID-19 crisis are saturated with the language of wartime, and shaded by an implicit or explicit nostalgia for the Second World War “blitz spirit.” In this article, we discuss how the war metaphor gives rise to a sacrificial logic that manifests through the various forms of […]

By Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose During the COVID-19 crisis, the use of shame has been prominent and we discuss how this has impacted on healthcare workers in particular. As frontline representatives of healthcare, doctors are particularly vulnerable to shame and shaming. Issues which directly affect a doctor’s ability to deliver healthcare effectively, including long […]

By Arthur Rose and Luna Dolezal During the COVID-19 crisis,  metaphors of “saving face”, and its corollary “losing face”, have emerged as motivating forces that explain the policy decisions of some nation states and organizations. However, an Orientalist tendency to associate “face saving” with Asian countries has led to a pseudo division between countries that rationally […]