Dom i zwierzęta – poszukiwanie bezpiecznej przestrzeni i znaczących relacji z innymi w postpandemicznej kulturze kryzysu

The aim of this article is to analyse the post-pandemic culture that has emerged from the bottom-up reconfiguration of privacy and everyday life. The unfolding analysis is based on the online qualitative and quantitative research conducted on the relatively large albeit unrepresentative research samples. The project was implemented in three phases in 2020–2021. The interpretation of the research results includes a thematic analysis. Its purpose is to identify the emerging themes confirmed with the quantitative data. To outline the framework of the post-pandemic culture, the changing ways of understanding the COVID-19 pandemic in the structure of the subjects’ everyday experience are described. The results of the empirical research lead to the following conclusions about the post-pandemic era: (1) It is characterised by the inability to return to the pre-pandemic cultural practices and ways of life; (2) It is a social state of mindfulness and expectation of the symptoms of further unrest, crises and catastrophes; (3) It also includes the bottom-up changes in cultural practices in face of an uncertain future – a reconfiguration of home as an essential sphere for survival and improved relationships with nature represented by pets.