Essays

Navigating education and socialisation: Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on students with disabilities in India

Mridula Muralidharan

New Delhi, India 7 abril 2021
Essays

Now More than Ever, we Need to Grow our own Food: A Call to Action

Alternative Estuary

Essex, UK 3 marzo 2021
Essays

Care, Covid 19 and Domestic Work in Latin America: An Opportunity for Recognition

Tallulah Lines and Jean Grugel

Quintana Roo, Mexico 10 diciembre 2020
Essays

Social oppression, emotional labour and collective care

Pankhuri Agarwal

Resisting social hierarchies and their borders that structure space is no easy work. Besides the possibility of threat and arrest, it takes an emotional and mental toll. In the current political climate, how can we continue to resist social oppression?

Bristol, UK & India 4 diciembre 2020
Essays

Forgotten ‘Heroes’: Frontline Nurses’ Experiences of the Covid-19 Crisis

Radha Adhikari, Sushila Karki-Budhathoki, Kate Weir

The government’s appropriation of health professionals as ‘NHS Heroes’ has been mainly a way of keeping the issue of economic and social justice at bay, without making any meaningful political commitment to improve workers’ long-term wellbeing.

Edinburgh, Scotland 19 noviembre 2020
Essays

Everyday Re-enchantments: Plants and the Labour of Care in the Time of Covid-19

Gavin Maclean

Glasgow, UK 13 noviembre 2020
Essays

Nanny Solidarity Now: The Nanny Regulation Movement as Racialized Class War

Veronica Deutsch

The regulation movement is led entirely by white British women, yet migrant workers make up at least 47% of the sector. These groups benefit from implicitly racist and classist structures by centering themselves as the “qualified” option.

London, UK 4 noviembre 2020
Essays

Cuidar en tiempos de crisis: Internacionalismo médico en Cuba

Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams, Mariakarla Nodarse

Washington DC, US & Cuba 28 octubre 2020
Essays

Caring in Crisis: Medical Internationalism in Cuba

Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams and Mariakarla Nodarse

Washington DC, US & Cuba 28 octubre 2020
Letters and Reflections

A Bonding Stitch: In Honour of the Seamstresses of Toronto

Norin Taj

During the initial weeks of the pandemic, as the world was coping with looming anxieties and uncertain futures, many women, in their homes and communities, sewed hundreds of face masks to keep their communities safe. This poem, in Urdu and English, is for these unsung heroes.

Toronto, Canada 22 octubre 2020
Essays

“Support Our Students”: Class Aspiration, Online Education and COVID-19

Jagriti Gangopadhyay

Manipal, India 24 septiembre 2020
Letters and Reflections

A Plea from Jakarta: May Empathy and Sympathy be the New Normal

Wisnu Adihartono

Jakarta, Indonesia 17 septiembre 2020
Essays

“Our physical and mental health are most affected by our material conditions”: The Struggle of Frontline Health Workers in India

Sanjana Santosh

Facing the pressure to do multiple surveys along with their routine work, frontline health workers in India wonder why the collected data is so valued while their labour and time congealed within the data remain undervalued.

Thane, India 10 septiembre 2020
Essays

Altered Routines, Diminished Solidarity and Invisibility: The Experience of Live-in ‘Child Nurses’ During the Pandemic

Deepali Aparajita Dungdung

None of these women have left their workspaces since the pandemic began. Normally they would travel to meet their friends on the non-working Sundays. Unfortunately, the pandemic has ceased the Sunday gatherings, curtailing further these women’s opportunity for solidarity.

Ranchi, India 8 septiembre 2020
Photos and Art

Take Me Back to the Old World

Earl Carlo Guevarra

Zamboanga City, Philippines 2 septiembre 2020
Audio/Video

Know place like home: The 82.3m2 Project

Dan Lovesey

Cheshire, UK 31 agosto 2020
Letters and Reflections

Better Together

Melike Sema Alisan

Istanbul, Turkey 27 agosto 2020
Essays

VIRAL CARE: Spectacles of Care as a Substitute for Domestic Workers’ Rights

Simiran Lalvani and Sanjana Santosh

This analysis of comedic content posted on social media during the pandemic examines employer's expressions of gratitude towards working class domestic workers in India, and asks how it might translate in terms of providing job security, salary and working conditions.

Mumbai, India 25 agosto 2020
Essays

Middle-Classness, Delivered: Sociological Reflections on Fast-Food During the Pandemic

Shreya Sen, Tannistha Samanta

Gandhinagar, India 17 agosto 2020
Essays

Social Welfare Strike: A Call to Action from the Academy

Semassa Boko

Irvine, USA 13 agosto 2020
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