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Catching a glimpse: Corona-life and its micro-politics in academia

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  • Mie Plotnikof
  • Pia Bramming
  • Layla Branicki, Macquarie University
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  • Lærke Julie Højgaard Christiansen, University College Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Kelly Henley, University of Central Lancashire
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  • Nina Kivinen, Åbo Akademi University
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  • Joao Paulo Resende de Lima, Universidade de Sao Paulo
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  • Monika Kostera, The Jagiellonian University
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  • Emmanouela Mandalaki, NEOMA Business School
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  • Saoirse O'Shea, Northumbria University
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  • Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Brown University
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  • Alison Pullen, Macquarie University
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  • Jim Stewart, Liverpool Business School
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  • Sierk Ybema, Vrieje University
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  • Noortje van Amsterdam, Utrecht University

The spread of COVID-19 acutely challenges and affects not just economic markets, demographic statistics and healthcare systems, but indeed also the politics of organizing and becoming in a new everyday life of academia emerging in our homes. Through a collage of stories, snapshots, vignettes, photos and other reflections of everyday life, this collective contribution is catching a glimpse of corona-life and its micro-politics of multiple, often contradicting claims on practices as many of us live, work and care at home. It embodies concerns, dreams, anger, hope, numbness, passion and much more emerging amongst academics from across the world in response to the crisis. As such, this piece manifests a shared need to - together, apart - enact and explore constitutive relations of resistance, care and solidarity in these dis/organizing times of contested spaces, identities and agencies as we are living-working-caring at home during lockdowns.

Original languageEnglish
JournalGender, Work and Organization
Volume27
Issue5
Pages (from-to)804-826
Number of pages23
ISSN0968-6673
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sep 2020

    Research areas

  • crisis, feminist care, resistance, solidarity, writing differently, Videregående uddannelse

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