Stories
“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 September 2020
Our Covid – One Trinbagonian’s Rituals of Caution and Recognitions of Worth
Anonymous
Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean
16 October 2020
Solidarity, Care and Despair
Robyn Fawcett
Lichfield, United Kingdom
14 October 2020
Mums Need Hugs: The Contradictions of Public Health
Karen Horrocks
South Yorkshire, England
7 October 2020
Mental Health and Quarantine: An Excerpt from my Journal
Cecilia Bath
Fortaleza, Brasil
2 October 2020
“Support Our Students”: Class Aspiration, Online Education and COVID-19
Jagriti Gangopadhyay
Manipal, India
24 September 2020
A Plea from Jakarta: May Empathy and Sympathy be the New Normal
Wisnu Adihartono
Jakarta, Indonesia
17 September 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 September 2020
Take Me Back to the Old World
Earl Carlo Guevarra
Zamboanga City, Philippines
2 September 2020
Know place like home: The 82.3m2 Project
Dan Lovesey
Cheshire, UK
31 August 2020
Better Together
Melike Sema Alisan
Istanbul, Turkey
27 August 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 August 2020
The Struggle of Phd Mothers During Covid-19: A View from Singapore
Anonymous
Singapore, Singapore
19 August 2020
Middle-Classness, Delivered: Sociological Reflections on Fast-Food During the Pandemic
Shreya Sen, Tannistha Samanta
Gandhinagar, India
17 August 2020
Social Welfare Strike: A Call to Action from the Academy
Semassa Boko
Irvine, USA
13 August 2020
Eating Together, Apart – Reflections on the Community Foodscape in Nottingham during the Pandemic
Marsha Smith
Nottingham, England
11 August 2020
SELF-ISOLATING / SELF-PORTRAITS
Daniel Monk
London, UK
5 August 2020
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
Santiago, Chile
4 August 2020
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
Santiago, Chile
4 August 2020
COVID-19: An Illustrated Journal
Iulia Pascu
Bruxelles, Belgium
3 August 2020
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.
Greater Manchester, UK
27 July 2020
