Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19
Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19
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DOI：
10.1007/s11013-024-09846-8
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发表时间：
2024-02-23
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Xie，Jianmei
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作者：
Mason，Katherine A.;Xie，Jianmei
在这篇文章中，我们考察了一组在广州学习的中国大学生的新冠肺炎经历。我们参考了中国学生在2022年3月至5月期间向疫情日志项目提交的日志条目，以及2022年7月和12月的后续回复，认为这些学生在本科的大部分时间里都生活在一种“拉锯狂热”的状态中。我们把翘翘板癖定义为一种漫长的时期，在这段时间里，许多中国人无法预测他们是否可以自由地从事日常生活中的日常活动。我们追踪学生们的反应和适应，因为他们努力去上课，买食物，看到朋友和家人在开放和封闭之间不可预测的摇摆。限制的拉锯性质在我们跟踪的学生中引发了相当大的焦虑，但也产生了一种乐观的心态，我们称之为“焦虑的希望”。与会者接受了Covid控制的必要性，并认为他们作为个人有责任适应这一现实。他们认为自己有责任积极培养积极的心态。我们的发现表明，在大流行期间促进情绪上的自我照顾和焦虑的希望可能支持了长期控制的可行性以及突然放弃这些控制的可接受性，同时抑制了抵抗的可能性。
In this article, we examine the Covid-19 experiences of a group of Chinese university students studying in the city of Guangzhou. We draw on journal entries that Chinese students submitted to the Pandemic Journaling Project between March and May 2022, along with follow-up responses in July and December 2022, to argue that these students spent most of their undergraduate years living in a state of “seesaw precarity.” We define seesaw precarity as a protracted period during which many Chinese were unable to predict from one day to the next whether they would be free to engage in the quotidian activities of everyday life. We trace student reactions and adaptations as they struggled to attend class, buy food, and see friends and family in the midst of unpredictable swings between openness and closedness. The seesaw nature of restrictions spurred considerable anxiety among the students we followed, but also produced an optimistic mindset we refer to as “anxious hope.” Participants accepted the necessity of Covid controls and felt it was incumbent upon them as individuals to adjust to this reality. They saw themselves as responsible for actively cultivating a positive mindset. Our findings suggest that the promotion of emotional self-care and anxious hope during the pandemic may have supported the viability of long-term controls as well as the acceptability of their sudden abandonment, while muting the possibility of resistance.