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Paper short abstract:

This paper aims at problematizing formal medical discourses on relational wellbeing in the context of the covid 19 pandemic in Greece. How is personal, national, present and future wellbeing constructed in the context of responsible co-living with human and non-human entities?

Paper long abstract:

This paper aims at problematizing medical discourses on relational wellbeing in the context of the covid 19 pandemic in Greece drawing from official announcements and practices from both governmental and other formal bodies of medical (g)local authority and knowledge.The three governmental imposed rules “menoume spiti” (“stay home”), “atomikh eythynh” (“personal responsibility”) and “kratame apostash”, (“social-physical distance”), construct the discursive landscape of this emergent reality reshaping many aspects of everyday life, and bringing relational responsibility to the forefront of ensuring personal, family, community and national wellbeing. Drawing from the aforementioned formal medical announcements, analyses and instructions, this paper wishes to reflect on wellbeing constructions and potential conceptual shifts in relation to the following trajectories which seem to be of key significance:- wellbeing ensured via responsible and disciplined co-living with humans and non-humans (viruses);- balancing proximity and distance;- associating personal and mutual responsibility with the wellbeing of the soma of the nation, and with sustainable future prosperity;- hierarchies of human wellbeing as they are constructed in terms of family quarantine configurations, access to healthcare, age and gender stratification, economic precariousness;- everyday medical and non-medical materialities and practices of symbiosis and prophylaxis.