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

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  • Michela Cozza
  • Silvia Gherardi
  • Valeria Graziano
  • Janet Johansson
  • Mathilde Mondon‐Navazo
  • Annalisa Murgia
  • Kim Trogal

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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  • Michela Cozza & Silvia Gherardi & Valeria Graziano & Janet Johansson & Mathilde Mondon‐Navazo & Annalisa Murgia & Kim Trogal, 2021. "COVID‐19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(S1), pages 190-208, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:gender:v:28:y:2021:i:s1:p:190-208
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12524
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