PANDEMIC PANOPTICON COVID 19 : CHALLENGING THE ESTABLISED STRUCTURE Mita Rosaliza(a*), Raja Syamsidar(b), Tengku Romi Marnelly(a), Vita Amelia(c), Hesti Asriwandari(a)
a) Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Riau, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
*mita.rosaliza[at]lecturer.unri.ac.id
b) Department of Indonesian Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Lancang Kuning, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
c) Department of Library Science, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Lancang Kuning, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
Abstract
This article explore a series of changes that occur in the society, both in the order of individual and collective behavior in the Covid-19 Pandemic field. The combination of Foucault^s (1977) to see how the contestation of the COVID-19 panopticon pandemic has infiltrated all levels of society, and also using the Strategic Action Field (SAF) Fligstein and McAdam (2011, 2012) which is a perspective to understand the emergence, stability, and change of the meso-level social order. Furthermore, this article discusses the incumbents and challengers in the COVID-19 pandemic field and how the role of the governance unit is making both incumbents and challengers familiar with the disciplinary effects or regulations of the pandemic (especially through social distancing practices), routines, and habits, as well as the era of normalization in daily life. The scope of this research begins at the beginning of the pandemic and ends in early June 2021, concerning digital data. By tracing the development trajectory of the SAF Covid-19 Pandemic field, we discuss the application of SAFs theory to understand an unexplored field in Indonesia.
Keywords: COVID-19- Panopticon- Social Order- Strategic Action Field- Government
