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Lockdown - A Disorienting Force. A queer perspective on lockdown and isolation in London during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sörensen, Ted LU (2021) GNVM03 20211
Department of Gender Studies
Abstract
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a scientific interest in how certain measures of disease control, such as lockdowns, affects different individuals and different communities. Through a queer-phenomenological approach, the purpose of the study is to offer queer insights of lockdown as a measure of disease control by exploring how queer people in London orientate and experience the everyday spaces they have been confided to under those premises. By analysing written accounts sent in by queer people that has experienced lockdown in London, the result of the study shows that lockdown has had a palpable effect on the access and proximity to queer spaces. Lockdown organizes the everyday life under new premises and
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In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a scientific interest in how certain measures of disease control, such as lockdowns, affects different individuals and different communities. Through a queer-phenomenological approach, the purpose of the study is to offer queer insights of lockdown as a measure of disease control by exploring how queer people in London orientate and experience the everyday spaces they have been confided to under those premises. By analysing written accounts sent in by queer people that has experienced lockdown in London, the result of the study shows that lockdown has had a palpable effect on the access and proximity to queer spaces. Lockdown organizes the everyday life under new premises and
creates difficulties in facing a direction where one comes into contact with other queer people and allies. This might run the risk of putting disadvantaged queer people in an even more precarious position. The participants in the study tell off stories where one is limited to digital
spaces and media. However, the time of lockdown has also been a time of liberation where participants speak of moments of revelation coming to terms with their sexuality and gender identity through times of isolation. (Less)
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author
Sörensen, Ted LU
supervisor
organization
course
GNVM03 20211
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
queer, phenomenology, lockdown, isolation, covid-19
language
English
id
9065157
date added to LUP
2021-09-23 08:50:10
date last changed
2021-09-23 08:50:10
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  abstract     = {{In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a scientific interest in how certain measures of disease control, such as lockdowns, affects different individuals and different communities. Through a queer-phenomenological approach, the purpose of the study is to offer queer insights of lockdown as a measure of disease control by exploring how queer people in London orientate and experience the everyday spaces they have been confided to under those premises. By analysing written accounts sent in by queer people that has experienced lockdown in London, the result of the study shows that lockdown has had a palpable effect on the access and proximity to queer spaces. Lockdown organizes the everyday life under new premises and
creates difficulties in facing a direction where one comes into contact with other queer people and allies. This might run the risk of putting disadvantaged queer people in an even more precarious position. The participants in the study tell off stories where one is limited to digital
spaces and media. However, the time of lockdown has also been a time of liberation where participants speak of moments of revelation coming to terms with their sexuality and gender identity through times of isolation.}},
  author       = {{Sörensen, Ted}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Lockdown - A Disorienting Force. A queer perspective on lockdown and isolation in London during the COVID-19 pandemic}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}