Care and domestic work through crises

The paper discusses changing conditions of care and domestic work in Greece in the context of the ongoing health crisis, which follows a long period of successive and simultaneous crises (financial, social, pandemic, refugee, war) and extreme neoliberal policies implemented to control them. The focu...

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Autor: Vaiou, Dina|||0000-0003-1729-7851
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositório:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:275075
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/275075
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/dag.814
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Care
Crises and effects
Pandemic
Lockdown/s
Geographical scale
Cura
Crisis i efectes
Pandèmia
Confinament/s
Escala geogràfica
Cuidado
Crisis y efectos
Pandemia
Confinamiento/s
Escala geográfica
Descrição
Resumo:The paper discusses changing conditions of care and domestic work in Greece in the context of the ongoing health crisis, which follows a long period of successive and simultaneous crises (financial, social, pandemic, refugee, war) and extreme neoliberal policies implemented to control them. The focus is on the burden that women (have to) assume in conjunctures which reinstate care (and domestic work) as "women's work", with particular emphasis in the periods of "lockdown" adopted by the government in order to control the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. The general overview is supported by research in Athens and material from interviews with women who juggle with space and time as they struggle to care for the self and for others while adhering to personal goals and aspirations, as well as to the "social benefits" of previous decades of relative prosperity.