Italy, the first European country that started the lockdown due to Covid-19, today is – still – in the midst of a mass biographical (or else, societal) disruption. Our everyday life has been completely overturned. During the first phase of the pandemic (March/April 2020) we con- ducted 20 episodic narrative interviews with childless, highly educated adults (11 females and 9 males, 29 to 36 years old) living in Northern Italy, the epicentre of the epidemic, to explore how residents reconstructed their everyday life. Interviewees report mixed feelings about stay- ing locked in their homes: cozyness but also restriction; easiness to call friends but forced physical isolation; doing work in places usually devoted to relax. Moreover, being forced to stay at home appears as a cognitive ambiguous situation in which people define themselves as persons ‘in-waiting’ in a ‘hold-on’ time. With COVID-19, something (very) familiar like everyday life became suddenly hostile and incomprehensible. We underwent a social disrup- tion requiring new cognitive categories, new social practices and new habits. Our experience of the domestic sphere turned ambivalent.

Antonio Maturo, V.M. (2021). Perturbante e performante. Il lockdown indomestico. SALUTE E SOCIETÀ, suppl. 2/2021, 21-34 [10.3280/SES2021-002-S1002].

Perturbante e performante. Il lockdown indomestico

Antonio Maturo
Primo
;
Veronica Moretti
Secondo
;
Marta Gibin
Ultimo
2021

Abstract

Italy, the first European country that started the lockdown due to Covid-19, today is – still – in the midst of a mass biographical (or else, societal) disruption. Our everyday life has been completely overturned. During the first phase of the pandemic (March/April 2020) we con- ducted 20 episodic narrative interviews with childless, highly educated adults (11 females and 9 males, 29 to 36 years old) living in Northern Italy, the epicentre of the epidemic, to explore how residents reconstructed their everyday life. Interviewees report mixed feelings about stay- ing locked in their homes: cozyness but also restriction; easiness to call friends but forced physical isolation; doing work in places usually devoted to relax. Moreover, being forced to stay at home appears as a cognitive ambiguous situation in which people define themselves as persons ‘in-waiting’ in a ‘hold-on’ time. With COVID-19, something (very) familiar like everyday life became suddenly hostile and incomprehensible. We underwent a social disrup- tion requiring new cognitive categories, new social practices and new habits. Our experience of the domestic sphere turned ambivalent.
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Antonio Maturo, V.M. (2021). Perturbante e performante. Il lockdown indomestico. SALUTE E SOCIETÀ, suppl. 2/2021, 21-34 [10.3280/SES2021-002-S1002].
Antonio Maturo, Veronica Moretti, Marta Gibin
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