Affect

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.

Testimonies of Confinement: Women and Men in Academia
BCNUEJ - Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice & Sustainability

The Gift of Sharing: Food Provision During the Covid-19 Lockdown in the UK
Gayle Letherby

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...
L’inconfort et la détresse adoucis par la solidarité / Discomfort and Distress Softened by Solidarity
Josiane Boulad-Ayoub
COVID-19, Racialisation and Care: Nepali Healthcare Practitioners’ Frontline Experience
Radha Adhikari

Conversations with Krishna: Everyday Musings of a Child Growing Up in Pandemic Times
Radhika Govinda

Zooming Mum: Lockdown in the Care Home
Kate Carruthers Thomas
COVID Outside Our Door: A Letter to my Growing Son (and Myself)
A. Andrada

Death in the absence of hugs
Pat Sikes

Protect our National Health Service (NHS)
Lauren
Questioning the “New Normal” of the Filipino State: A Call for Government Responsibility During the Pandemic
Gretchen Abuso

A Malleable Border Teeming with Life
Lata Mani

Parents’ Home Office Challenges During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Lena Hipp, Stefan Munnes and Mareike Bünning
In time of social distance
William Wall
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.