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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | (In-press) |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Gender, Work & Organization |
| Volume | (In-press) |
| Early online date | 8 Aug 2020 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 8 Aug 2020 |
Bibliographical note
© 2020 The Authors. Gender, Work & Organization published by John Wiley & Sons LtdThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords
- care
- diffraction
- invisibility
- mending
- repair
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Gender Studies
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management