A Screen of One's Own
The Domestic Caregiver as Researcher During Covid-19, and Beyond
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5854409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cathy Smith (0000-0002-4916-7851) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 108 |
| Pages | 165-179 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Feminist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1321-7568 • E-ISSN: 1465-3303 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08164649.2021.2010180 |
| OpenAlex | W3215787443 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 27 |
Much has been written about the domestic interior as a site of subjection and containment for women, both literal and metaphoric. This brief essay engages the ethical complexities resulting from the unexpected transformation of the domestic interior from a site of largely non-market exchanges into a work-from-home (WFH) and research base during the Covid-19 pandemic. The consequent enfolding of private and public life, work and family, consumerism and caregiving has been particularly complex for those whose research projects have been forced online. To explore these complexities, and within the methodological frame of 'nomadic research', this essay draws from feminist writings about the domestic interior as well as my own intersectional experiences of the pandemic which, while localised and personal, also resonate with those of others' similarly wrestling work and caring from shared, and often overcrowded homes. It argues that it is from our messy bedrooms that we must confront and reimagine ethical research practices, and the often-hidden role of the domestic interior within them
Aesthetics · Art · Consumerism · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Domestic work · Media studies · Pandemic · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Architecture, Design, and Social History · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Medicine · Gender Studies · Law
The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract
Home
Remote judging
Constructing imaginary narratives
Academic motherhood during Covid‐19
Reflecting upon vulnerable and dependent bodies during the Covid‐19 crisis
Caring during Covid‐19
Alexa, Alert Me When the Revolution Comes
Body-Building-Becomings
Gender and Labour in New Times
Writing as a Nomadic Subject
Research priorities for the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
Mythmaking as a feminist strategy
Self-precarization and the spatial imaginaries of property guardianship
The intimate insider
A Theoretical Framework for the Critical Posthumanities
The House Unbound
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |