BETWEEN PRESENT AND FUTURE: UNCERTAINTY AND SECURITY SELF-MANAGEMENT IN TIMES OF CORONAVIRUS Cover Image

POMIĘDZY TERAŹNIEJSZOŚCIĄ A PRZYSZŁOŚCIĄ: NIEPEWNOŚĆ I SAMOZARZĄDZANIE BEZPIECZEŃSTWEM W CZASACH KORONAWIRUSA
BETWEEN PRESENT AND FUTURE: UNCERTAINTY AND SECURITY SELF-MANAGEMENT IN TIMES OF CORONAVIRUS

Author(s): Kamila Grześkowiak
Subject(s): Security and defense, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze
Keywords: anticipation; uncertainty; security self-management; agency; potential futures; coronavirus;

Summary/Abstract: Through analysis of the interviews conducted with the female store, drugstore and pharmacy employees facing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in their workplace, I investigate ways in which uncertainty influenced their perception of the future. I focus on how the visions of potential futures shape their everyday practices. In particular, I am interested in anticipation of the future, a concept which explores how future influences present. I explore, how in this difficult times my research partners have been self-managing their security in the workplace. This article is an attempt to analyze ethnographical materials gathered during COVID-19 – times methodologically challenging.

  • Issue Year: 104/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 279-298
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish