Working with care
Embodying feminist care ethics in regional coworking spaces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8946449 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisabetta Crovara (0000-0002-4865-4308, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 140 |
| Pages | 103702-103702 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geoforum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103702 |
| OpenAlex | W4323656740 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 43 |
This paper extends knowledge on the emotional and social labour of coworking founders. It does so from a cultural geographical perspective by asking how this labour intimately affects coworking founders’ everyday lives and introducing feminist care ethics to reflect on it. The paper shows how this conceptual framework helps to shed light on the effects, the temporality, and the ambivalence of this labour. The everyday practices of two coworking founders, Paul and Rachel, are understood through ethnographic fieldwork based on feminist geographical methodologies and conducted in a small regional town in Victoria, Australia. From these understandings, the paper argues that the everyday coworking practices of regional coworking founders are caring practices, aimed to maintain, continue, and repair a hospitable atmosphere in the space. Furthermore, it argues that these caring practices are ambivalent and limited, as they can have negative effects on the wellbeing of the coworking founders. Three impressionistic vignettes trace these effects, including exhaustion, discomfort, and resentment. The paper concludes with three suggestions for policy on regional innovation, for coworking research, and for research on feminist care ethics. These include the need for 1) more attention to the effects of care and coworking practices; 2) more focus on the temporality of such practices to better understand their sustainability; 3) increasing research on the intersection between regionality and care, thus inviting research on “cities of care” to also direct its attention to regional areas
Ambivalence · Care work · Epistemology · Ethics of care · Ethnography · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Temporality · Anthropology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Facilities and Workplace Management · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Rooted digitalism
Co-Working Spaces as Third Place
Scenes of detachment
Evolution of New Working Spaces
Making place for disconnection
Enhancing workplace research through a radically reflexive video-tour
Choosing coworking spaces
Revealing Young People's ‘Care‐Full’ Migration Decision‐Making
Blurring the lines
Region power for mobilities research
Geographies of awkward encounters
The Logic of Care
Working Alone Together
Understanding feelings
Doing Ethnography
Supporting open, shared and collaborative workspaces and hubs
Introducing Human Geographies
Sharing as a postwork style
The ambivalence of coworking
The third wave of coworking
The home as a site for long-term care
Race and feminist care ethics
Shadow care infrastructures
Housing
Disability, embodiment and the meaning of the home
Cities of care
The possibility of care-full cities
The cafe as affective community space
Freelance isn’t free.’ Co-working as a critical urban practice to cope with informality in creative labour markets
The affective commons of Coworking
People just need to feel important, like someone is listening”
The uncomfortable politics of care and conflict
The new topologies of collaborative workspace assemblages between the market and the commons
Justice and care in the city
A Place for Other Stories
Encountering stressed bodies
Feeling otherwise
Co-working spaces for promoting entrepreneurship in sparse regions
Diverse economies
Geographies of Care and Responsibility
Cities of care
Reworking therapeutic landscapes
Regionality
A Space to Care, a Space of Care
Affective life of financial loss
Housing for Health
Spaces of care in the city
Recentring care
Exhausting rhythms
Excursions - telling stories and journeys
Until the end of days
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |