Geopolitics of care
Navigating education and socialisation: Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on students with disabilities in India
Mridula Muralidharan
New Delhi, India
7 abril 2021
Now More than Ever, we Need to Grow our own Food: A Call to Action
Alternative Estuary
Essex, UK
3 marzo 2021
Care, Covid 19 and Domestic Work in Latin America: An Opportunity for Recognition
Tallulah Lines and Jean Grugel
Quintana Roo, Mexico
10 diciembre 2020
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
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
Everyday Re-enchantments: Plants and the Labour of Care in the Time of Covid-19
Gavin Maclean
Glasgow, UK
13 noviembre 2020
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
Cuidar en tiempos de crisis: Internacionalismo médico en Cuba
Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams, Mariakarla Nodarse
Washington DC, US & Cuba
28 octubre 2020
Caring in Crisis: Medical Internationalism in Cuba
Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams and Mariakarla Nodarse
Washington DC, US & Cuba
28 octubre 2020
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
“Support Our Students”: Class Aspiration, Online Education and COVID-19
Jagriti Gangopadhyay
Manipal, India
24 septiembre 2020
A Plea from Jakarta: May Empathy and Sympathy be the New Normal
Wisnu Adihartono
Jakarta, Indonesia
17 septiembre 2020
“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
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
Take Me Back to the Old World
Earl Carlo Guevarra
Zamboanga City, Philippines
2 septiembre 2020
Know place like home: The 82.3m2 Project
Dan Lovesey
Cheshire, UK
31 agosto 2020
Better Together
Melike Sema Alisan
Istanbul, Turkey
27 agosto 2020
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
Middle-Classness, Delivered: Sociological Reflections on Fast-Food During the Pandemic
Shreya Sen, Tannistha Samanta
Gandhinagar, India
17 agosto 2020
Social Welfare Strike: A Call to Action from the Academy
Semassa Boko
Irvine, USA
13 agosto 2020
