Global crises drastically alter human behavior, rapidly impacting patterns of movement and consumption. A rapid-response analysis of material culture brings new perspective to disasters as they unfold. We present a case study of the coronavirus pandemic in Tromsø, Norway, based on fieldwork from March 2020 to April 2021. Using a methodology rooted in social distancing and through systematic, diachronic, and spatial analysis of trash (e.g., discarded gloves, sanitization products), signage, and barriers, we show how material perspectives improve understanding of relationships between public action and government policy (in this case examined in relation to the Norwegian concept of collective labor, dugnad). We demonstrate that the materiality of individual, small-scale innovations and behaviors that typified the pandemic will have the lowest long-term visibility, as they are increasingly replaced or outnumbered by more durable representations generated by centralized state and corporate bodies that suggest close affinity between state directive and local action. We reflect on how the differential durability of material responses to COVID-19 will shape future memories of the crisis.

全球危机极大地改变了人类行为，迅速影响了运动和消费模式。对物质文化的快速反应分析为灾难的展开带来了新的视角。我们根据 2020 年 3 月至 2021 年 4 月的实地调查，介绍了挪威特罗姆瑟冠状病毒大流行的案例研究。 )、标牌和障碍，我们展示了物质视角如何提高对公共行动与政府政策之间关系的理解（在这种情况下，结合挪威的集体劳动概念dugnad）。我们证明，作为大流行典型代表的个体、小规模创新和行为的重要性将具有最低的长期可见性，因为它们越来越多地被中央国家和企业机构产生的更持久的代表所取代或数量更多，这些代表表明两者之间存在密切的联系。国家指令和地方行动。我们反思了对 COVID-19 的物​​质反应的不同耐久性将如何塑造未来对危机的记忆。