A wonderland for wolves: A sociography of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Abstract

I was writing about the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone when the global pandemic of Covid-19 hit. Everywhere I looked news articles crowded with infographics of the infected made me suspicious of spheres: curves needed flattening. No matter where I turned for information there were human shapes in rings marking distance. I was disturbed by how often the phrase ‘what goes around comes around’ popped into my head, like some kind of self-hazing ritual initiating me into a new normal. As I send this sociography to publication, Russia has invaded Ukraine. The Chernobyl Zone, along with the rest of the country, has become a battlefield. There is no other way for me to write this, from a distance, other than to do so through a looping disorientation. And so I write by turning paragraphs into zones that surround ideas, memories, facts, and feelings of place that are never stable, but always on the move.

Indonesian sociography: analysis of themes and the implications for strengthening high school sociology learning in Indonesia

“…70, Issue 4), presenting academic debates and a variety of praxis capable of activating and developing relevant knowledge and imagination through sociography monographs. This collection of monographs contained reviews and reflections on the following literary works: (1) the origins of the working class (Felski, 2022); (2) survivors of sexual violence during the Bangladesh war in 1971 (Mookherjee, 2022); (3) the strategy of 'The #OneLess campaign pilot project' in initiating younger generation to reproduce knowledge, increase awareness-sensitivity, and perform transformative practices on environmental issues (Vitellone, 2022); (4) a diary about the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone during the occurrence of the Covid-19 pandemic (Freeman, 2022); (5) the analysis of historical urbanization study, liberalism, and fascism in cities (Gassner, 2022); (6) gender feminist evaluation in areas intersecting with crime and violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Brigstocke, et al, 2022); and (7) the strategies for compiling monographs through poetry, fiction, memoirs/diaries, and bibliographies (Edkins, 2022;Smith, 2022;Watson, 2022;Shelton, 2022;Engle, 2022;Berlant and Stewart, 2022). Another sociography monograph was produced by Coelho (2023), where ethnographic outputs were presented on start-up (an early-stage venture) in a local business community in Portugal, which had the greatest growth and visibility in the last three years.…”