ABSTRACT

This article investigates the ways in which social distancing and home confinement restrictions have been experienced and perceived in the Italian socio-cultural context, in order to assess how they reshaped everyday life, and which are their social implications. Drawing on 60 in-depth semi-structured interviews, this article sheds light on the sense-making processes and the construction of inter-subjective meaning around home confinement and social distancing that emerged during the lockdown. Results support that during the national quarantine individuals had to reframe everyday practices, thereby redefining the boundaries of their experience. Indeed, individuals had to deal with a lack of personal spaces, a following stress overload and a collapse of the typical boundaries between the professional and private sphere, which required a complex management of everyday activities. Implications of these preliminary findings are discussed, as well as suggestions for future research.

抽象的

本文调查了在意大利社会文化背景下经历和感知到的社会隔离和家庭限制的方式，以评估它们如何重塑日常生活，以及它们对社会的影响。本文基于60次深入的半结构化访谈，阐明了在封锁期间出现的围绕家庭禁闭和社会疏离的意识形成过程和主体间意义的建构。结果表明，在国家检疫期间，个人必须重新构造日常习惯，从而重新定义其经验的界限。实际上，个人必须应对缺乏个人空间，随之而来的压力超负荷以及专业领域和私人领域之间典型界限的崩溃，这需要对日常活动进行复杂的管理。讨论了这些初步发现的含义以及对未来研究的建议。