ABSTRACT

This autoethnography uses narrative inquiry to make sense of practices normalized during quarantine. It centers my identity as a classed and racialized immigrant in relation to the socioeconomics of quarantine to question seemingly innocent mandates, policies, and practices. The narrative form of the article is influenced by Nathan Hodges’ ‘The Chemical Life.' I use the self-reflexive ‘I' to connect the individual to the social and engage the reader with my routine in quarantine. I also rely on repetition – inspired by Aisha Durham’s ‘On Collards'– to reinforce the normalcy of the quarantine, i.e., what is new for most of us has been the same old for most of us. The repetition combined with understatements attempts to unsettle the novelty of quarantine.

摘要

这种自我民族志使用叙事探究来理解隔离期间规范化的做法。它以我作为与隔离的社会经济学相关的分类和种族化移民的身份为中心，质疑看似无辜的任务、政策和做法。文章的叙述形式受到内森·霍奇斯的《化学生活》的影响。我使用自我反身的“我”将个人与社交联系起来，并让读者参与我在隔离期间的日常工作。我还依靠重复——受 Aisha Durham 的“On Collards”的启发——来加强隔离的常态，即对我们大多数人来说是新的东西对我们大多数人来说都是一样的。重复加上轻描淡写的说法试图扰乱隔离的新颖性。