Between Happiness and Contingency

Bodies and Houses During Isolation. An Ethnographic Analysis of Middle Classes in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Authors

  • María Florencia Blanco Esmoris Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES)/Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
  • Nemesia Hijós Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)/Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2447-6218.2020.26650

Keywords:

Bodies, Houses, Isolation

Abstract

The mandatory enclosure changed the ways we live. For those of us who were transients in our houses, it made us inhabitants, for whom the house was our shelter, now it is a suffocating place. We return to our ethnographies, yet digital, to question ourselves during confinement. How do we experience and articulate our bodies in our homes? We analyze ethnographic scenes and expose the fragility of everyday life of the middle class in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the same time, we present the capacity of agency and the ways in which micro-certainties (oriented to “the positive” or happiness) are produced to deal with this pandemic context. 

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Published

2020-12-30

How to Cite

Esmoris, M. F. B., & Hijós, N. (2020). Between Happiness and Contingency: Bodies and Houses During Isolation. An Ethnographic Analysis of Middle Classes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. LICERE - Revista Do Programa De Pós-graduação Interdisciplinar Em Estudos Do Lazer, 23(4), 156–172. https://doi.org/10.35699/2447-6218.2020.26650

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 4 (2020): dezembro

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Artigos Originais

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