Elder care

Covid-19 and the Caring of the Working Class: A View from the UK
Mike Haynes

COVID-19 & Touch
Mickey Vallee

Care, Covid 19 and Domestic Work in Latin America: An Opportunity for Recognition
Tallulah Lines and Jean Grugel

Our Covid – One Trinbagonian’s Rituals of Caution and Recognitions of Worth
Anonymous

Mums Need Hugs: The Contradictions of Public Health
Karen Horrocks

“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.

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.

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.

Social Welfare Strike: A Call to Action from the Academy
Semassa Boko

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
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

Zooming Mum: Lockdown in the Care Home
Kate Carruthers Thomas

Death in the absence of hugs
Pat Sikes
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

FIRST NIGHT ON THE FRONT LINES
Ruben Sumaguio

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.