Life under lockdown
Notes on Covid‐19 in Silicon Valley
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7640606 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roberto J González (0000-0003-4847-497X), John Marlovits (0000-0002-9944-6162) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 11-15 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-540X • E-ISSN: 1467-8322 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-8322.12574 |
| PMID | 32572297 |
| OpenAlex | W3033686090 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article is a preliminary exploration of the effects of Covid‐19 in Silicon Valley, one of three pandemic ‘hotspots’ on America’s west coast. In particular, it describes how the crisis has deepened and magnified social and economic inequalities in a region where poverty, homelessness and gentrification are rife. Despite the fact that many technology firms are reaping massive profits in the wake of ‘shelter in place’ orders, many Silicon Valley workers have lost their jobs and are struggling to cope with the consequences of Covid‐19. The article also analyzes the different meanings of ‘lockdown’ by comparing examples from China, Brazil, Taiwan and the United States. The authors conclude that anthropologists have a significant role to play in helping to understand how and why communicable diseases emerge, the underlying social and environmental conditions that fuel them and cross‐cultural strategies for the effective mitigation of epidemics and pandemics
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Archaeology · China · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Entrepreneurship · Gentrification · Geography · Inequality · Pandemic · Political science · Poverty · Silicon valley · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Zoonotic diseases and public health
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Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists
Cultures@SiliconValley
Situations, Crisis, and the Anthropology of the Concrete
Sidney W. Mintz Lecture for 1995
Disrupting Silicon Valley's Stories
The archaeological study of epidemic and infectious disease
Geography, ecology and emerging infectious diseases
Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand
Archaeological Evidence of Epidemics Can Inform Future Epidemics
Epidemics (Especially Ebola)
The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |