Dis/Connections in the Argentinean Inland: (Im)Mobility and Morality in times of Pandemic

ZENOBI, DIEGO; ULLBERG, SUSANN

A revelatory pandemic?

Berghahn books

Lugar: New York; Año: 2023;

(El libro está en prensa, aún no tiene ISBN, se colocó otro número a fin de poder realizar la carga) As disaster anthropologists, we are used to analyzing the social vulnerabilities produced when infrastructures are out of order due to a hazard, as is often the case in a flood, a storm or an earthquake. We also study infrastructural breakdown as disasters, such as dam breaks and power outages, and how people and institutions deal with such risks and events. Less studied as of yet are cases in which everyday infrastructures such as roads are deliberately disabled as part and parcel of a crisis management policy to prevent human mobility. By focusing on roads, we take stock of the recent anthropological interest in infrastructure as a vantage point from which to study the contemporary (Harvey et al. 2017; Hetherington 2019a: Larkin 2013). As a case in point, we take the 2020 lockdown in Argentina, zooming in on the border region between the Province of San Luis and the Province of Cordoba in the inland, and basing our study on material collected by digital methods in 2020 and ethnographic fieldwork in the area in December 2021