Geopolitics of care

Una breve introducción a CUIDAR: Estudio sobre tiempos, formas, y espacios de cuidado en casa durante la pandemia
Sebastian Rojas Navarro, Maria-Alejandra Energici, Nicolas Schongut-Grollmus, Samanta Alarcon Arcos

CUIDAR means CARE : A study about times, forms, and spaces of care within the household during the pandemic
Sebastian Rojas Navarro, Maria-Alejandra Energici, Nicolas Schongut-Grollmus, Samanta Alarcon Arcos

Racialized Class Inequality is a Death Sentence: An Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK
Cameron Boyle
From housing to healthcare to employment, those outside dominant whiteness are left behind. And now, they are directly exposed to the worst public health crisis that has been seen in peacetime.

Nannies in Lockdown: Virtue, Power, and the Value of Women’s Work
Veronica Deutsch
Despite their perceived lack of value, during the Coronavirus pandemic nannies are being framed as an essential and urgent service. If these nannies and their ‘unskilled’ labour are an economic necessity, perhaps fair remuneration for hazardous work shouldn’t be off the table.

RISK: CARE: RESPONSIBILITY: SOLIDARITY? Essential Labour during the Covid-19 Pandemic in India
Gayatri Nair, Paro Mishra and Anindita Majumdar

Corporate Care and Solidarity?
Andreas Chatzidakis
Can corporations care, let alone demonstrate solidarity? I had started pondering this question a few months before the Covid-19 pandemic took hold. I vividly recall being in a meeting with the Care Collective and stumbling upon a “Primark Cares” pop-up store on my return home...
COVID-19, Racialisation and Care: Nepali Healthcare Practitioners’ Frontline Experience
Radha Adhikari

Protect our National Health Service (NHS)
Lauren

Caring for Country: Migrant Workers and Affective Work in India
Maansi Parpiani
Questioning the “New Normal” of the Filipino State: A Call for Government Responsibility During the Pandemic
Gretchen Abuso

Parents’ Home Office Challenges During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Lena Hipp, Stefan Munnes and Mareike Bünning

Eid Al-Fitr and Religious Holidays: Challenges of Covid-19 in the Muslim World
Mohammad Hidayaturrahman
The Blackbirds Sing
Louise A. Hart
Precarity and the Effect of Sudden Economic Shock on the Intimate Labour Force in India
Sutapa Majumdar

FIRST NIGHT ON THE FRONT LINES
Ruben Sumaguio

Forgotten ones – the ambiguity of care in a homeless shelter during Covid-19
Johannes Lenhard

Hacia una cultura del cuidado / Towards a Culture of Care
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
On Being Old and Vulnerable
Mary Evans
In telling the over-70s to stay at home the government is recognising vulnerability, but refusing to consider how that vulnerability is produced.

Can Covid 19 be a Game-Changer? Those Who Serve on the Frontline and Servant Loyalty during the Indian Mutiny of 1857
Shalini Grover
A comparative account of the current Covid pandemic & the Indian Mutiny of 1857; what these events have in common is gender and a crisis in social reproduction. Quarantine diaries and mutiny diaries bring us to historical cross-roads for re-evaluating class-gender-race-caste.