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

Cozza, Michela and Gherardi, Silvia and Graziano, Valeria and Johansson, Janet and Mondon-Navazo, Mathilde and Murgia, Annalisa and Trogal, Kim (2020) Covid‐19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices. Gender, Work & Organization. ISSN 1468-0432

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Creators:

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

Description/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.

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Article

Date:

8 August 2020

Identification Number:

10.1111/gwao.12524

Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :

care, diffraction, invisibility, mending, repair

Schools:

School of Architecture & Design

Depositing User:

Oriane Winship