[Linganth] Compilation references on Linguistic Anthropology and COVID-19

Tue Apr 27 23:26:09 UTC 2021

Seconding Netta's thanks to Ignasi for compiling and all the colleagues who
have worked on it.

If I may, adding one of my own - which parallels the talk Netta just
referred to! Published in AA's Public Anthropologies blog:
http://www.americananthropologist.org/2021/04/14/the-limits-of-official-statistics/

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 7:02 PM Netta Avineri <navineri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Ignasi for sharing this comprehensive list - and thank you to
> colleagues who have written/contributed to this great list!
>
> I am happy to share an Anthropology News piece my colleagues and I wrote
> about an interdisciplinary course we co-taught about COVID-19 in fall 2020:
>
> https://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2021/04/13/interdisciplinary-co-teaching-takes-on-wicked-problems/?fbclid=IwAR1fksHPpGUpu4Wv2SQrqWXlQICEJk1JVxSF4BlVHKvgcNVe9aEJbdh0IiQ
>
> A special shout out to Eric Johnson, Glenn Martinez, and Jena
> Barchas-Lichtenstein (and John Voiklis) for bringing in awesome linguistic
> anthropological & applied linguistics perspectives through their guest
> lectures in the course. :)
>
> Best,
> Netta
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 2:16 PM Ignasi Clemente <ignasiclemente at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> I have compiled the many references that all of you have shared, as we
>> build together the emerging research on COVID-19 from a linguistic
>> anthropological perspective. I am sure there are more references by now,
>> please share them and I will update the compilation. Thank you for all your
>> contributions,
>>
>> Ignasi
>>
>>
>> - Black, S. P. (2021). Linguistic Anthropology and COVID-19. *Anthropology
>> News website, March 26, 2021. DOI: 10.14506/AN.1606*,
>>
>> *https://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2021/03/26/linguistic-anthropology-and-covid-19/
>> <https://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2021/03/26/linguistic-anthropology-and-covid-19/>*
>>
>> - Blommaert, J. (2020). COVID19 and Globalization
>>
>>
>> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339788830_COVID19_and_Globalization
>>
>> - By Blommaert’s students,
>> https://www.diggitmagazine.com/files/coronavirus-and-digital-culture
>>
>> - Brada (2017). “Exemplary or Exceptional? The Production and Dismantling
>> of Global Health in Botswana.” In Herrick and Reubi (eds.), *Global
>> Health and Geographical Imaginaries*. New York: Routledge: 40-53.
>>
>> - Briggs (2005). “Communicability, Racial Discourse, and Disease.” Annual
>> Review of Anthropology 34: 269-291.
>>
>> - Briggs (2017). “Toward Communicative Justice in Health.” Medical
>> Anthropology 36(4): 287-304.
>>
>> - Briggs, C. L. (2020). Beyond the Linguistic/Medical Anthropology
>> Divide: Retooling Anthropology to Face COVID-19. *Medical Anthropology,
>> 39*(7), 563-572.
>>
>> - Fleming, Luke and James Slotta, *Social Distancing and the Cultural
>> Semiotics of Contact*, SLA blog
>> http://linguisticanthropology.org/social-distancing-cultural-semiotics-contact/
>>
>> - Katila, Gan, and Goodwin (2020). “Interaction Rituals and ‘Social
>> Distancing’: New Haptic Trajectories and Touching from a Distance in the
>> Time of COVID-19.” Discourse Studies 22(4): 418-440.
>>
>> - Russell, Kamala has a great blog post "‘Social Distancing’ is more than
>> standing 6 feet away" on Medical Anthropology Quarterly: (
>> https://medanthroquarterly.org/rapid-response/2020/04/social-distancing-is-more-than-standing-6-feet-away/),
>> very useful resources at
>> https://medanthroquarterly.org/rapid-response/2020/05/issue-1-medical-anthropology-weekly-covid-19/
>>
>>
>> - Zhang and Li (eds.) (2020) *Linguistic Diversity in a Time of Crisis:
>> Language Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic*. A Special issue of
>> Multilingua 39:5 (with 12 articles in it).
>>
>> - Pritzker, S. E. (2020). Language, Emotion, and the Politics of
>> Vulnerability. *Annual Review of Anthropology, 49*(1), 241-256.
>>
>> - 4 commentaries (one by Steven Black, one by Chun, and one by Du, plus
>> one by the journal editors) in a special forum for *Language, Culture,
>> and Society 2(2), https://benjamins.com/catalog/lcs.2.2
>> <https://benjamins.com/catalog/lcs.2.2> *
>> Chun, C. W. (2020). The return of the ‘Yellow Peril’: The fear of getting
>> sick from the Other. *Language, Culture and Society, 2*(2), 252-259.
>> MIRCo (2020). Pandemic discourses and the prefiguration of the future. *Language,
>> Culture and Society, 2*(2), 227-241.
>> Du, Y. (2020). “I don’t feel like talking about it”: Silencing the self
>> under Coronavirus. *Language, Culture and Society, 2*(2), 260-268.
>> Black, S. P. (2020). Communicability, stigma, and xenophobia during the
>> COVID-19 outbreak: “Common reactions”? *Language, Culture and Society, 2*(2),
>> 242-251.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 27, 2021, at 10:45 AM, Steve Black <stevepblack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ignasi and all,
>> Here is my promised Anthropology News summary/commentary on linguistic
>> anthropology and COVID-19. I hope some find it useful!
>>
>>
>> https://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2021/03/26/linguistic-anthropology-and-covid-19/
>>
>> Take care,
>> Steve
>>
>> Steven P. Black
>> Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies/ Department of
>> Anthropology / Georgia State University
>> National Geographic Explorer (2021-2022)
>> Co-Editor / Society for Linguistic Anthropology Column / Anthropology News
>> Senior Editor / Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology
>> The Global Health Discourse Project <http://sites.gsu.edu/sblack/> / GSU
>> Anthropology <https://anthropology.gsu.edu/> / Book: Speech and Song at
>> the Margins of Global Health
>> <https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/speech-and-song-at-the-margins-of-global-health/9780813597713>
>> **Graduate student forms can be found HERE
>> <https://cas.gsu.edu/academics-admissions/required-milestones/>**
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf
>> of Ignasi Clemente <ignasiclemente at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 1:45 PM
>> *To: *"linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org" <
>> linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org>
>> *Subject: *Re: [Linganth] Blommaert and colleagues, students on covid
>>
>> Thank you everybody! Keep them coming. I will compile them together and
>> share them in one email. I’m going to wait a few days, I’m sure there are
>> still more out there.
>>
>>
>> Ignasi
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 3, 2021, at 7:31 PM, Nevins, Marybeth E. <mnevins at middlebury.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> The late Jan Blommaert and students penned a number of short pieces on
>> covid-19 within his linguistic anthropologically informed sociolinguistics
>> of globalization:
>>
>> https://www.diggitmagazine.com/files/coronavirus-and-digital-culture
>> [image: Image removed by sender.]
>> <https://www.diggitmagazine.com/files/coronavirus-and-digital-culture>
>> Coronavirus and digital culture | Diggit Magazine
>> <https://www.diggitmagazine.com/files/coronavirus-and-digital-culture>
>> The coronavirus has devastating effects around the world: it has stopped
>> or at least seriously diminished offline social life. At the same time, the
>> coronavirus produces enormous social activity online.
>> www.diggitmagazine.com
>>
>> He self-published a stand-alone piece here:
>> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339788830_COVID19_and_Globalization
>>
>> I can attest to these being great resources for engaging students.
>>
>> best,
>> Marybeth
>> [image: Image removed by sender.]
>> <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339788830_COVID19_and_Globalization>
>> (PDF) COVID19 and Globalization - ResearchGate
>> <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339788830_COVID19_and_Globalization>
>> The COVID19 crisis of early 2020 reveals some of the key features of
>> contemporary globalization processes. It is driven by global mobility
>> patterns, and control over these patterns is the central ...
>> www.researchgate.net
>>
>>
>>
>> M. Eleanor Nevins
>> Director, Linguistics Program
>> Associate Professor of Anthropology
>> Department of Anthropology
>> 75 Shannon Street
>> Middlebury College
>> Middlebury, VT 05753
>> E-mail: mnevins at middlebury.edu
>> Skype:marybeth.nevins
>>
>> Lessons From Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance.
>> Blackwell Series in Discourse and Culture. Wiley-Blackwell. 2013.
>>
>> Worldmaking Stories: Maidu Language and Community Renewal on a Shared
>> California Landscape. University of Nebraska Press. 2017.
>>
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>>    1. New literature on COVID-19 & SARS from a ling anthro
>>       perspective (Ignasi Clemente)
>>    2. Re: New literature on COVID-19 & SARS from a ling anthro
>>       perspective (Steve Black)
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>> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 21:04:21 +0100
>> From: Ignasi Clemente <ignasiclemente at gmail.com>
>> To: LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org
>> Subject: [Linganth] New literature on COVID-19 & SARS from a ling
>>         anthro  perspective
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>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> As the pandemic continues, I was wondering if we could share updates on
>> references/publication/ research available on COVID-19 or SARS from a
>> linguistic anthropology perspective and more generally from a
>> language-focused perspective (conversation analysis, discourse analysis,
>> and scholars sensitive to language from any discipline).
>>
>> A few months ago, a few references already circulated, I can only
>> remember two. I’m sure more were circulated back then and that more will
>> have been published by now.
>>
>> Briggs, C. L. (2020). Beyond the Linguistic/Medical Anthropology Divide:
>> Retooling Anthropology to Face COVID-19. Medical Anthropology, 39(7),
>> 563-572.
>> Pritzker, S. E. (2020). Language, Emotion, and the Politics of
>> Vulnerability. Annual Review of Anthropology, 49(1), 241-256.
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>> Ignasi Clemente
>>
>> Ignasi Clemente PhD
>> Department of Anthropology
>> Hunter College, City University of New York
>> 707 Hunter North Building
>> 695 Park Avenue
>> New York, NY 10065
>> US
>>
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>> To: Ignasi Clemente <ignasiclemente at gmail.com>,
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>> Hi Ignasi and all,
>> Ignasi, great idea! I am actually just finishing up an Anthropology News
>> SLA section news piece on just this topic, which should be available online
>> by March maybe? (I’ll be sure to share when it becomes available). In the
>> meantime, here are some of the pieces I’ve collected that appear in the
>> section news piece, in addition to the two you mention. Some of these are
>> pre-pandemic pieces that are relevant, and then there have been a few other
>> pieces published specifically about COVID-19.
>>
>> - Brada (2017). “Exemplary or Exceptional? The Production and Dismantling
>> of Global Health in Botswana.” In Herrick and Reubi (eds.), Global Health
>> and Geographical Imaginaries. New York: Routledge: 40-53.
>> - Briggs (2017). “Toward Communicative Justice in Health.” Medical
>> Anthropology 36(4): 287-304.
>> - Briggs (2005). “Communicability, Racial Discourse, and Disease.” Annual
>> Review of Anthropology 34: 269-291.
>> - Katila, Gan, and Goodwin (2020). “Interaction Rituals and ‘Social
>> Distancing’: New Haptic Trajectories and Touching from a Distance in the
>> Time of COVID-19.” Discourse Studies 22(4): 418-440.
>> - Zhang and Li (eds.) (2020) Linguistic Diversity in a Time of Crisis:
>> Language Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Special issue of
>> Multilingua 39:5 (with 12 articles in it).
>> - 4 commentaries (one by Black [that’s me], one by Chun, and one by Du,
>> plus one by the journal editors) in a special forum for Language, Culture,
>> and Society 2(2).
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of
>> Ignasi Clemente <ignasiclemente at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 at 3:05 PM
>> To: "LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org" <
>> LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org>
>> Subject: [Linganth] New literature on COVID-19 & SARS from a ling anthro
>> perspective
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> As the pandemic continues, I was wondering if we could share updates on
>> references/publication/ research available on COVID-19 or SARS from a
>> linguistic anthropology perspective and more generally from a
>> language-focused perspective (conversation analysis, discourse analysis,
>> and scholars sensitive to language from any discipline).
>>
>> A few months ago, a few references already circulated, I can only
>> remember two. I’m sure more were circulated back then and that more will
>> have been published by now.
>>
>> Briggs, C. L. (2020). Beyond the Linguistic/Medical Anthropology Divide:
>> Retooling Anthropology to Face COVID-19. Medical Anthropology, 39(7),
>> 563-572.
>> Pritzker, S. E. (2020). Language, Emotion, and the Politics of
>> Vulnerability. Annual Review of Anthropology, 49(1), 241-256.
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>> Ignasi Clemente
>>
>> Ignasi Clemente PhD
>> Department of Anthropology
>> Hunter College, City University of New York
>> 707 Hunter North Building
>> 695 Park Avenue
>> New York, NY 10065
>> US
>>
>>
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