Abstract
This article explores the micro- and macro-level implications of the dual global pandemics of COVID-19 and racism through a narrative structure based on Barad’s discussion of “timehops.” Weaving personal, national, and international stories, the article explores qualitative research’s responsibility and potential to offer new ways to respond to the entanglements of people, places, moments, materials, and these pandemics.
Highlights
When quarantine started months ago in response to COVID19’s spread, I found time slipping away
Seemingly disparate, “[t]hese stories inhabit each other—a strange topology that already anticipates the kind of temporal imaginaries” that time hopping works to explore (p. 62)
This article draws on prompts/musings from the writing community’s process(es) to explore the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism; it concludes with considerations of how qualitative researchers might approach these intertwined pandemics with “an ongoing responsiveness to the entanglements of self and other, here and there, and ” (Barad, 2007, p. 394)
Summary
When quarantine started months ago in response to COVID19’s spread, I found time slipping away. 69)—different moments in different spaces, with the micro of personal experiences linked with macro across the United States and the world. Time Hops: The Dancing Pot and a Global/ National Pressure Cooker
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