Surveillance
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 December 2020
The Lightwell (Boşluk)
Begüm Özden Fırat
İstanbul, Turkey
2 December 2020
The Balcony and our Dreams (Balkon ve Bizim Rüyalar)
Aylin Kuryel
In this new film, Aylin Kuryel brings us into a selection of dreams dreamt during the current coronavirus outbreak. The longings, worries and desires that have been quarantined in the depths of mind come to the surface and interfuse with the sounds, music, applauses & protests.
Amsterdam, Netherlands & Turkey
1 December 2020
Everyday Re-enchantments: Plants and the Labour of Care in the Time of Covid-19
Gavin Maclean
Glasgow, UK
13 November 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 November 2020
Mums Need Hugs: The Contradictions of Public Health
Karen Horrocks
South Yorkshire, England
7 October 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 September 2020
Take Me Back to the Old World
Earl Carlo Guevarra
Zamboanga City, Philippines
2 September 2020
Social Welfare Strike: A Call to Action from the Academy
Semassa Boko
Irvine, USA
13 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
Death in the absence of hugs
Pat Sikes
UK
12 June 2020
Caring for Country: Migrant Workers and Affective Work in India
Maansi Parpiani
Mumbai, India
9 June 2020
In time of social distance
William Wall
Ireland
26 May 2020
Eid Al-Fitr and Religious Holidays: Challenges of Covid-19 in the Muslim World
Mohammad Hidayaturrahman
East Java, Indonesia
20 May 2020
Precarity and the Effect of Sudden Economic Shock on the Intimate Labour Force in India
Sutapa Majumdar
Pune, India
19 May 2020
Forgotten ones – the ambiguity of care in a homeless shelter during Covid-19
Johannes Lenhard
Cambridge, UK
18 May 2020
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.
UK
13 May 2020
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.
Kent, UK
6 May 2020
