Clever COVID-19, Clever Citizens-98: Critical and Creative Reflections from Tehran, Toronto, and Sydney
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SYMPOSIUM: COVID-19
Clever COVID-19, Clever Citizens-98: Critical and Creative Reflections from Tehran, Toronto, and Sydney Laura Bisaillon & Mehdi Khosravi & Bahareh Jahandoost & Linda Briskman
Received: 4 May 2020 / Accepted: 12 August 2020 # Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Pty Ltd. 2020
Abstract Our world suffers. Some people suffer more than others. Since the first part of 2020, ours is justly described as a time of uncertainty, threat, and upheaval. In this article, we offer reflections threaded narratively, told from the specificity of our societal contexts in Iran, Canada, and Australia. What might we learn in the present and anticipated future from people living chronically within conditions of uncertainty and immobility and also those experiencing uncertainty and immobility for the first time? We argue that reflexive comparative analysis bridging social and visual analysis, anchored in embodied conditions of such people, offers a way to learn from responses to COVID-19 while also being an exercise in ethical research practice. This reflection builds on and extends from our scholarly collaborations that have been ongoing since 2015. Our title recognizes this specific virus as stealthy. Importantly, our choice of
L. Bisaillon (*) Department of Health and Society, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4, Canada e-mail: [email protected] M. Khosravi Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran e-mail: [email protected] B. Jahandoost Tehran University of Fine Arts, Tehran, Iran e-mail: [email protected] L. Briskman Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia e-mail: [email protected]
words identifies resident Iranians—whose experiences were the original impetuses for this paper, and whose lives provide its empirical basis (98 is Iran’s country code)—as equally steely. Keywords Australia . Canada . COVID-19 . Immobility . Iran . Material conditions . Movement . Social analysis . Social suffering . Visual analysis
Our world suffers. Some people suffer more than others. Since the first part of 2020, ours is justly described as a time of uncertainty, threat, and upheaval. In this article, we offer reflections threaded narratively, told from the specificity of our societal contexts in Iran, Canada, and Australia. What might we learn in the present and anticipated future from people living chronically within conditions of uncertainty and immobility and also those experiencing uncertainty and immobility for the first time? We argue that reflexive comparative analysis bridging social and visual analysis, anchored in embodied conditions of such people, offers a way to learn from responses to COVID-19 while also being an exercise in ethical research practice. This reflection builds on and extends from our scholarly collaborations that have been ongoing since 2015. Our title recognizes this specific virus as stealthy. Importantly, our choice of words identifies resident Iranians—whose experiences were the original im
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