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The enforcement of quarantine on communities all over the world has also brought to the surface already existing inequalities; those who have the ability to quarantine and work from home disproportionately occupy spaces of privilege. Disabled people, working class communities, poor communities with unstable/dense housing or informal jobs that depend on every day go out to search for something; do not have the option of quarantine. What has been the response to this? How has quarantine been experienced differently by communities with different lived experiences at the intersections of class, geography, and ableism
Panel 1: "The (im)possibilities of self isolation: (Every day) Practices of Collective Care during pandemic times"
Panellists: Gabriel Khan, Allen Baylosis, 'Long Time No See' (Amy Shuang and Brenda Joy)
Moderator: Fuyubi Nakamura (中村冬日) is a socio-cultural anthropologist trained at Oxford. Dr. Nakamura is cross appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies and as Curator, Asia in the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC. She is also Associate Member in the Department of Anthropology. She taught at the Australian National University and the University of Tokyo, and curated exhibitions internationally prior to joining UBC in 2014. Her research through exhibition curation as public scholarship includes Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia (2017) and A Future for Memory: Art and Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake (2021). Among her publications are Asia through Art and Anthropology: Cultural Translation across Borders (2013) and Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond (2019).