COVID-19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices.
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Abstract | :
'A lot of things need to be repaired and a lot of relationships are in need of a knowledgeable mending. Can we start to talk/write about them?' This invitation - sent by one of the authors to the others - led us, as feminist women in academia, to join together in an experimental writing about the effects of COVID-19 on daily social practices and on potential (and innovative) ways for repairing work in different fields of social organization. By diffractively intertwining our embodied experiences of becoming together-with Others, we foreground a multiplicity of repair (care) practices COVID-19 is making visible. Echoing one another, we take a stand and say that we need to prevent the future from becoming the past. We are not going back to the past; our society has already changed and there is a need to cope with innovation and repairing practices that do not reproduce the past. |
Year of Publication | :
2021
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Journal | :
Gender, work, and organization
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Volume | :
28
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Issue | :
Suppl 1
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Number of Pages | :
190-208
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ISSN Number | :
0968-6673
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DOI | :
10.1111/gwao.12524
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Short Title | :
Gend Work Organ
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