You Can't Eat Soap
Reimagining Covid-19, Work, Family and Employment from the Global South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2374604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ameeta Jaga (0000-0002-5014-3013, University of Cape Town, corresponding author), Ariane Ollier-Malaterre (0000-0003-2315-5091, Université du Québec à Montréal) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 769-780 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09500170211069806 |
| OpenAlex | W4211080399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 42 |
This article problematises the assumptions regarding work, family and employment that underlie the World Health Organization (WHO)'s COVID-19 guidelines. The scientific evidence grounding sanitary and social distancing recommendations is embedded in conceptualisations of work as skilled jobs in the formal economy and of family as urban and nuclear. These are Global North rather than universal paradigms. We build on theories from the South and an intersectional analysis of gender and class inequalities to highlight contextual complexities currently neglected in responses to COVID-19. We argue that building on both science and local knowledge can help democratise workable solutions for a range of different work, family and employment realities in the Global South. Finally, we propose a research agenda calling for strengthened North-South dialogue to provincialise knowledge, account for differences in histories, locality and resource-availability, and foster greater local participation in policy formulation regarding sanitary measures and vaccination campaigns
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Distancing · Economic geography · Geography · Global South · Inequality · Locality · Political science · Public relations · Resource (disambiguation · Social distance · Sociology · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Medicine
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Work and Family Research and Theory
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No Room of her Own
Geopolitics of Power and Knowledge in the Covid-19 Pandemic
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The hegemony of men in global value chains
Notes on a Southern urban practice
Theory from the South
Straddling the Divides
Work and Life Integration
Seeing from the South
Migrants at Work
A Capability Approach to Understand the Scarring Effects of Unemployment and Job Insecurity
Class and Precarity
Intersectionality
Women, Land-Struggles and Globalization
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |