ABSTRACT

While situations of crisis are a cause of great distress for those affected, particularly the most vulnerable ones, they offer scholars unique opportunities to study people and society because such circumstances intensify existing processes, revealing what works well and where there are problems. The 2020 coronavirus outbreak was not any different. From a mobility studies perspective, one of the most striking things that occurred during the global pandemic were the changed patterns of who and what moved when, where, and how. Authorities across the planet (re-)classified the most common mobilities along ‘essential’ and ‘non-essential’ axes, the latter category temporarily being restricted or even forbidden. This article offers a critical assessment of such crisis regimes of (im)mobility, taking Belgium and its capital city Brussels as an illustrative case study. I reflect on the mobility implications of COVID-19 mitigation measures for citizens and others, highlighting how the condition of lockdown led to (sometimes unexpected) alterations in people’s daily mobilities. The anthropological analysis shows that an exceptional situation, such as the one witnessed in 2020, clearly brings to the fore which types of (im)mobility are valued by various stakeholders in society, which ones are discursively framed as essential (mainly from a socio-economic perspective) and which ones are experienced as existential (contributing to people’s general well-being).

抽象的

危机局势虽然给受影响的人们特别是最脆弱的人们造成极大的困扰，但它们却为学者们提供了研究人与社会的独特机会，因为这种情况加剧了现有的进程，揭示了行之有效的方法以及存在问题的地方。2020年冠状病毒的爆发没有任何不同。从流动性研究的角度来看，全球大流行期间发生的最惊人的事件之一是何时，何地以及如何移动的人和物的变化模式。整个地球上的主管部门对“基本”和“非基本”轴上最常见的移动性进行了分类，后者被暂时限制甚至禁止使用。本文对这种（行动）流动的危机机制进行了严格的评估，以比利时及其首都布鲁塞尔为例。我回顾了COVID-19缓解措施对公民和其他人的流动性影响，重点介绍了封锁条件如何导致人们的日常出行发生变化（有时是出乎意料的）。人类学分析表明，一种特殊的情况（例如2020年的情况）清楚地凸显了社会各利益相关者对哪种类型的（不）机动性的重视，而这些利益相关者被认为是必不可少的（主要是从社会利益相关者的角度出发）。经济观点），以及哪些经历是存在的（有助于人们的整体福祉）。强调锁定状态是如何导致（有时出乎意料的）人们日常出行方式的变化。人类学分析表明，一种特殊的情况（例如2020年的情况）清楚地凸显了社会各利益相关者对哪种类型的（不）机动性的重视，而这些利益相关者被认为是必不可少的（主要是从社会利益相关者的角度出发）。经济观点），以及哪些经历是存在的（有助于人们的整体福祉）。强调锁定状态是如何导致（有时出乎意料的）人们日常出行方式的变化。人类学分析表明，一种特殊的情况（例如2020年的情况）清楚地凸显了社会各利益相关者对哪种类型的（不）机动性的重视，而这些利益相关者被认为是必不可少的（主要是从社会利益相关者的角度出发）。经济观点），以及哪些经历是存在的（有助于人们的整体福祉）。