Caring through a screen
Caring for kin under lockdown
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13009644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Benchekroun (0000-0002-6911-9910, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-18 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Families Relationships and Societies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2046-7435 • E-ISSN: 2046-7443 |
| Publisher | Policy Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/204674321x16293510454010 |
| OpenAlex | W3207087201 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
COVID-19 and UK-wide lockdown measures in spring 2020 confined people to their homes, with implications for exchanging care. In a small-scale qualitative study, I examined the impact on individuals’ everyday caring practices with adult kin beyond the home. In this article, drawing on empirical evidence from my study, I argue that lockdown restrictions on in-person interactions and the increased reliance on ICTs shaped interactions and how relationships were experienced. The shift in practices highlighted the significance of the physicality and embodiment of everyday practices of care and perceptions of relationships. I argue that ‘caring through a screen’ under lockdown had impacts on subjective and relational wellbeing. I use the concept of developing co-presence across distance through ICTs to analyse shifts in family caring practices in the unique context of a national lockdown. I show how experiences of the disruption of the physicality of everyday micro-acts of care have shaped perceptions of family relationships
Context (archaeology · Empirical research · Epistemology · Everyday life · Geography · ICTS · Information and Communications Technology · Next of kin · Perception · Political science · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Elder Abuse and Neglect · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Social Psychology
Family obligations and social change
Guilty feelings and the guilt trip
Researching Intimacy in Families
The Dynamics of Social Practice
Negotiating Family Responsibilities
Rethinking Family Practices
Are social networks technologically embedded
Differences between Public and Private Sectors Employees Following the Managerial Turn in European States
In a different voice
Connected' Presence
ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities
Virtual' intimacies? Families communicating across transnational contexts
Missing Kin and Longing to be Together
De-demonizing distance in mobile family lives
The Visual Sociogram in Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research
Talking Ties
Locating 'Family Practices
Intergenerational Ambivalence
Telling Moments and Everyday Experience
Sociological Ambivalence Revisited
Displaying Families
Sociological Ambivalence and Family Ties
Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |