The Phenomenology of Social Distancing in the Covid-19 Pandemic

这个博士研究项目将研究人们对环境的体验和他们的身体如何变化，以应对社会距离，使用现象学方法。它将在新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19，即2019冠状病毒病）大流行以及随之而来的社交距离措施的背景下进行，但也将更普遍地展示传染的威胁如何使人们彼此疏远，并使人们越来越意识到身体是一个生物实体，从而导致身体透明度的丧失和身体客体化的增加。其目的不是提供一个社会距离的公共健康效益的经验说明，但提供一个详细的哲学说明，人们如何应对社会距离的情况下，通过识别和分析他们的个人和共享的经验。这项研究有可能影响有关控制传染病传播措施的政策决定，并可能通过提供人们与世界和其他人的关系如何在社交距离变化的详细说明来影响社会研究的其他领域。

This PhD research project will examine how people's experience of their environment and their body changes in response tosocial distancing, using a phenomenological methodology. It will do this in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and theaccompanying social distancing measures introduced in response, but will also show more generally how the threat of contagioncan alienate people from each other and create an increased awareness of the body as a biological entity, resulting in a loss ofbodily transparency and increased bodily objectification. The intention is not to provide an empirical account of the public healthbenefits of social distancing, but to provide a detailed philosophical account of how people respond to social distancing situationsby identifying and analysing their individual and shared experiences. This research has the potential to influence policy decisionsabout the measures taken to control the spread of infectious disease, and may influence other areas of social research throughproviding a detailed account of how people's relationship with the world and others in it changes in response to social distancing.