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?

The Lightwell (Boşluk)
Begüm Özden Fırat

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.

Everyday Re-enchantments: Plants and the Labour of Care in the Time of Covid-19
Gavin Maclean

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.

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.

Take Me Back to the Old World
Earl Carlo Guevarra

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

Death in the absence of hugs
Pat Sikes

Caring for Country: Migrant Workers and Affective Work in India
Maansi Parpiani
In time of social distance
William Wall

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

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