TY - JOUR
T1 - (Alter)Narratives of ‘Winning’
T2 - Supermarket and healthcare workers’ experiences of COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand
AU - Appleton, Nayantara Sheoran
AU - Long, Nicholas J.
AU - Aikman, Pounamu Jade
AU - Davies, Sharyn Graham
AU - Deckert, Antje
AU - Fehoko, Edmond
AU - Holroyd, Eleanor
AU - Jivraj, Naseem
AU - Laws, Megan
AU - Martin-Anatias, Nelly
AU - Roguski, Michael
AU - Simpson, Nikita
AU - Sterling, Rogena
AU - Trnka, Susanna
AU - Tunufa’i, Laumua
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - COVID-19 stories, especially from Aotearoa New Zealand as one of the leading nations ‘winning’ over the virus will be important historical documentation. The ‘team of 5 million’ is writing its narratives of life with/out COVID-19 – stories of ‘living in bubbles’, of ‘being kind’ and ‘being in it together.’ These are narratives of success which need to be examined alongside the narratives that have been absent from public national discourse but complicate understandings of ‘winning.’ To that end, in this article we map out (alter)narratives from supermarket and healthcare workers and highlight their stories of living and caring under lockdown. We posit that we need to pay attention to (alter)narratives of winning over COVID-19 in order to pay attention to the bodies and spaces that are often invisible but make winning possible. Thus, we see (Alter)narratives not as counter or anti to the nation’s winning narrative, but rather essential and adjacent.
AB - COVID-19 stories, especially from Aotearoa New Zealand as one of the leading nations ‘winning’ over the virus will be important historical documentation. The ‘team of 5 million’ is writing its narratives of life with/out COVID-19 – stories of ‘living in bubbles’, of ‘being kind’ and ‘being in it together.’ These are narratives of success which need to be examined alongside the narratives that have been absent from public national discourse but complicate understandings of ‘winning.’ To that end, in this article we map out (alter)narratives from supermarket and healthcare workers and highlight their stories of living and caring under lockdown. We posit that we need to pay attention to (alter)narratives of winning over COVID-19 in order to pay attention to the bodies and spaces that are often invisible but make winning possible. Thus, we see (Alter)narratives not as counter or anti to the nation’s winning narrative, but rather essential and adjacent.
KW - COVID
KW - New Zealand
KW - Health care
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/sites-id471
U2 - 10.11157/sites-id471
DO - 10.11157/sites-id471
M3 - Article
SN - 0112-5990
VL - 17
SP - 51
EP - 77
JO - SITES: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
JF - SITES: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
IS - 2
ER -