Work in Progress Seminar – COVID-19, Mobility and Identity

This seminar explores some of the ways in which the mobility restrictions as a population health response to the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact can be understood from perspectives related to a disruption of subjectivity and belonging.

Drawing on work-in-progress for the forthcoming book Identity in the COVID-19 Years: Communication, Crisis and Ethics and findings from a 2021 commissioned evaluation of the Government of Victoria’s COVIDSafe communication led by Rob, the seminar addresses some of the ways in which immobility, quarantine and lockdown have been unethically re-framed as ‘individual’ psychological harms rather than historical and ethical biopolitical health measures.

Presenter

Professor Rob Cover

Rob Cover Professor of Digital Communication RMIT University and a current Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, ANU

This series is an opportunity for our HRC Visiting Fellows to present and receive feedback on the research they are working on. In 2022 , Visiting Fellows are exploring the theme of Mobilities