Abstract Relying on auto-ethnography, I reflect on the role sourdough and bread-making practices have played during the COVID-19 pandemic. I explore the agency of a non-human entity—the sourdough—and the relations that emerge from nurturing it. In particular, I inquire what living relationally means for me—a professional migrant—in a time that is not only challenging, due to the pandemic and consequent lockdown away from my country of origin, but which has also forced me to proactively and creatively respond to being in a precarious employment. Sourdough and bread-making practices have allowed me to create, recreate, and reinforce new and existing relations. I, thus, indicate to what extent such practices activate kin making and knowledge making, whilst counterbalancing the alienation and distress that come from experiencing a pandemic.

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反思：在大流行期间用酸面团做亲戚

摘要 依靠自我民族志，我反思了在 COVID-19 大流行期间酵母和面包制作实践所发挥的作用。我探索了一个非人类实体——酸面团——的能动性，以及培养它所产生的关系。我特别想知道，在这个不仅由于大流行和随之而来的远离我的原籍国的封锁而充满挑战的时代，生活对我这个职业移民意味着什么，而且这也迫使我主动和创造性地做出反应处于不稳定的就业状态。酵母和面包制作实践让我能够创造、重建和加强新的和现有的关系。因此，我指出这种做法在多大程度上激活了亲缘关系和知识创造，同时平衡了经历大流行带来的疏远和痛苦。