Autore
Bassetti, Chiara

Titolo
Across balconies. Interaction in porous home territories in the Italian lockdown
Periodico
Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa
Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 233 - Pagina finale: 243

Balconies, verandas and courtyards are part of our homes, shared with householdor condominium members, but extending into public space for the visibilitythey allow compared to indoor. They constitute the porous (Benjamin,Lācis, 1978) borders of the home, and are configure as liminal spaces in the«geography» of private, parochial and public realms of social life (Lofland,1989). This geography has been reconfigured by/during the lockdown followingthe Covid-19 outbreak. With social life restricted to the home (althoughmany people were actually alone at home) and its liminal spaces, balconiesand courtyards were used more as the only functional outdoor space, andwere also more visible, as many more eyes were at home, possibly watching.They became home for the public realm, where several interactional practiceswere enacted to grant and acquire privacy (e.g. civil inattention, «undervoicing», doing oblivious), and also to mitigate the loneliness engenderedby home confinement (e.g. «stakeouts» for acquaintances, phone/video calls,interaction with pets). The paper considers such a reconfiguration based anethnographic study conducted from the balcony of an apartment in Parma,Italy.



SICI: 1973-3194(2020)2<233:ABIIPH>2.0.ZU;2-4
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.3240/97808
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