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It's just that uncertainty that eats away at people: Antarctic expeditioners' lived experiences of COVID-19
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Nash, M and Leane, E and Norris, K, It's just that uncertainty that eats away at people: Antarctic expeditioners' lived experiences of COVID-19, PLOS ONE, 17, (11) Article e0277676. ISSN 1932-6203 (2022) [Refereed Article]
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© 2022 Nash et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
DOI: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0277676
Abstract
With Antarctic expeditioners popularly portrayed in the media during the pandemic as both heroic stalwarts better equipped than any other people to deal with the rigours of isolation and, paradoxically, the only people untouched by the virus, it was all too easy to ignore the actual experiences of those working in the continent. Drawing on the experiences of expeditioners in the Australian Antarctic Program from 2019-21, this article provides a counter to popular media perspective by exploring how COVID-19 protocols – including quarantine and social distancing – affected expeditioners’ individual well-being and their experiences of the social environment. We argue that Antarctic life during COVID-19 has not been as detached from the rest of the world nor as heroic as the popular media has suggested, but nonetheless provides important insights for survival in isolated, confined, and extreme environments (ICE) and non-ICE environments at a time of pandemic.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Antarctica, COVID-19, isolated, confined and extreme environments, organisational culture, pandemic |
| Research Division: | Human Society |
| Research Group: | Sociology |
| Research Field: | Environmental sociology |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in human society |
| UTAS Author: | Nash, M (Associate Professor Meredith Nash) |
| UTAS Author: | Leane, E (Professor Elizabeth Leane) |
| UTAS Author: | Norris, K (Professor Kimberley Norris) |
| ID Code: | 154209 |
| Year Published: | 2022 |
| Deposited By: | English |
| Deposited On: | 2022-11-10 |
| Last Modified: | 2023-01-17 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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