Notes about a research under quarantine

Abstract

As a main purpose, I pretend to explore and systematize, revisiting research notes, the methodological obstacles encountered in a field research, at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, during the first months of 2020. Without the intention of discussing the results obtained after the research process, but taking into account mainly [1] the context, the particularities related to potential informants – people over forty-five years old, without a job, with limited connectivity and residents of a medium-sized city –  and [2] the sanitary conditions at the time, the relevance of the strategies adopted for the recruitment of informants and the carrying out of interviews in an unprecedented and critical sanitary context. Therefore, will be also observed the need for physical proximity for the execution of strategies traditionally used in the ethnographic scope and their relevance intermediated and adapted for online application.