Disruptions during the COVID-19 crisis

Seafarers are “key workers” during the Covid-19 pandemic as their work is indispensable to ensure the transport of essential goods. At the same time, they face humanitarian crises themselves, as many are not able to travel back home because of border closures and travel restrictions. In this video, Luisa Piart and Biao Xiang reflect on the disruptions faced by seafarers as well as by anthropologists whose fieldwork had to be suspended, too.

Luisa Piart is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Conversation recorded on 27 July 2021