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The Never‐ending Shift: A feminist reflection on living and organizing academic lives during the coronavirus pandemic

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  • Ilaria Boncori

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This article offers a feminist reflection written as a nocturnal stream of consciousness exposing the embodied, emotional and professional experience of living and working during a pandemic outbreak. Framed within a feminist approach, this personal narrative provides an example of the effects of such unexpected and unprecedented circumstances on personal and professional academic lives. Developed during the first stage of the (inter)national coronavirus pandemic, my reflections address issues of privilege; emotional labour; the virtual invasion of the home space within the current increasingly ambiguous space of ‘the workplace'; workload; and wellbeing. Further, I consider how the newly enforced flexible work measures based on online tools have turned current work–life dynamics into a ‘Never‐ending Shift'.

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  • Ilaria Boncori, 2020. "The Never‐ending Shift: A feminist reflection on living and organizing academic lives during the coronavirus pandemic," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(5), pages 677-682, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:gender:v:27:y:2020:i:5:p:677-682
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12451
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