期刊名称：Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
电子版ISSN：2572-9861
出版年度：2020
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：286-287
DOI：10.1080/25729861.2020.1770533
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：In the last couple of years, for circumstances of life, I have been living alone. Also, I have retiredfrom my professorship at the department of Science and Technology Policy at the University ofCampinas (UNICAMP), I moved to Rio de Janeiro and became a collaborator working from afar.Add to this that I am a person who enjoys to be home and have a varied repertoire of intereststhat can be pursued by oneself alone. I would then expect that being alone confined in myhome by force of the Covid-19 pandemic would have little impact on me. I was wrong. Firstof all, the pandemic is causing unimaginable human suffering and losses, and the impact ofthis on anyone with a soul dispenses explanation. On a more personal vein, the fact that Icannot see my family and friends and that I cannot move freely to places when I want to isalso taking its toll on me. Most of the time I feel myself emotionally and intellectually isolatedand constantly reflecting about isolation and what it means. What I made out of such reflectionis nothing grandiose, but simply a realization that voluntary isolation is totally different fromthe enforced isolation we are experiencing these days. To my surprise, I found out that theunsettling feeling of an enforced isolation was familiar to me; it was something I had feltbefore. When was it? During my PhD at Sussex University, between 1981 and 1985, when Iwas living with a husband and two children in a very small flat, and worked from a sharedoffice with five other doctoral candidates. The context could not be more different from theone I am in today. Where did this feeling of enforced isolation then come from?
