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

Michela Cozza; Silvia Gherardi; Valeria Graziano; Janet  Johansson; Mathilde  Mondon-Navazo; Annalisa Murgia; Kim Trogal

doi:10.1111/gwao.12524

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

Michela Cozza, Silvia Gherardi, Valeria Graziano, Janet Johansson , Mathilde Mondon-Navazo , Annalisa Murgia, Kim Trogal

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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
Pages (from-to)	190-208
Number of pages	19
Journal	Gender, Work & Organization
Volume	28
Issue number	S1
Early online date	8 Aug 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12524
Publication status	Published - Jan 2021

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© 2020 The Authors. Gender, Work & Organization published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd

This 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.

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European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Grant Number: 715950

Funding

European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Grant Number: 715950

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Horizon Europe	715950

Keywords

care
diffraction
invisibility
mending
repair

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Gender Studies
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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