Publication details
Flying with Covid: The visual presence of the pandemic in airports
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | AntHropológicas Visual |
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| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.51359/2526-3781.2021.251794 |
| Keywords | visual experience; Covid; airport |
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| Description | This ethnographic photoessay aims at describing the visual presence of the Covid in the airports. The work focuses on four airports in three countries the author passed through in June 2021. They are the airports of Salvador da Bahia (Brazil), Lisbon (Portugal), Rome and Venice (Italy). Despite the differences between the countries in the approached adopted to contain the diffusion of the pandemic, airports are subjected to standardized international protocols. These are intended to (re)produce similar safety measures in the diverse airports. Meanwhile, airports are designed not to be identitarian, historical and relational, but yes to be experienced as “non places” (as Augé defined these places). However, each airport introduces several dimensions of its specific location, of its specific local health politics, of its specific passengers’ flow, and so on, making of them a peculiar place to observe the space design for Covid diffusion control. |