Feeling in Suspension: Waiting in COVID-19 Shopping Queues

Jones, Victoria J.E.

doi:10.1080/2373566x.2021.2014928

Feeling in Suspension: Waiting in COVID-19 Shopping Queues

Jones, Victoria J.E.

Authors

Victoria Jones victoria.j.jones@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent UK lockdown were a catalyst for mass waiting. This paper will focus on a phenomenon, a particular form of waiting observed in shopping queues during lock down in the North East of England. Waiting practices formed through the COVID-19 pandemic have opened new forms of feeling, requiring new forms of articulation. As such the paper experiments with language and form speculatively describing feelings and temporalities through a metaphor, suspension. Initially the paper outlines what waiting is and does in order to provide a touchstone when considering the feelings formed within new practices of waiting. It then outlines and considers what liquid suspension can open as a writing device. Then working with suspension and aligned concepts of surface and viscosity, the paper explores the morphologies of mood and sensation felt and shared within COVID-19 pandemic shopping queues.

Citation

Jones, V. J. (2022). Feeling in Suspension: Waiting in COVID-19 Shopping Queues. Geohumanities, 8(2), 537-554. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2021.2014928

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Dec 2, 2021
Online Publication Date	Feb 3, 2022
Publication Date	2022
Deposit Date	Feb 13, 2022
Publicly Available Date	Jan 18, 2023
Journal	GeoHumanities
Print ISSN	2373-566X
Electronic ISSN	2373-5678
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	8
Issue	2
Pages	537-554
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2021.2014928

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