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. 2021 Jan;28(Suppl 1):190-208.
doi: 10.1111/gwao.12524. Epub 2020 Sep 29.

COVID-19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices

Michela Cozza  1 , Silvia Gherardi  2 , Valeria Graziano  3 , Janet Johansson  4 , Mathilde Mondon-Navazo  5 , Annalisa Murgia  5 , Kim Trogal  6
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COVID-19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices

Michela Cozza et al. Gend Work Organ. 2021 Jan.

Abstract

'A lot of things need to be repaired and a lot of relationships are in need of a knowledgeable mending. Can we start to talk/write about them?' This invitation - sent by one of the authors to the others - led us, as feminist women in academia, to join together in an experimental writing about the effects of COVID-19 on daily social practices and on potential (and innovative) ways for repairing work in different fields of social organization. By diffractively intertwining our embodied experiences of becoming together-with Others, we foreground a multiplicity of repair (care) practices COVID-19 is making visible. Echoing one another, we take a stand and say that we need to prevent the future from becoming the past. We are not going back to the past; our society has already changed and there is a need to cope with innovation and repairing practices that do not reproduce the past.

Keywords: care; diffraction; invisibility; mending; repair.

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