Bodies-In-Waiting as Infrastructure: Assembling the Philippine Government’s Disciplinary Quarantine Response to COVID-19

• Main Authors: Canoy, Nico A, Robles, Augil Marie Q, Roxas, Gilana Kim T
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: politics of waiting; body; urban political ecology; non-mobility; disciplinary quarantine; Human Ecology; Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/334; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953621010273?via%3Dihub
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The purpose of this article is to advance the concept of bodies-in-waiting as an everyday infrastructure to explain the shifting nature of ‘pandemic cities’ in response to the changing dynamics of infection control in urban spaces. While previous literatures have been ‘sanitized’ to emphasize the im...