Stay Home, Sustain Lives: Pandemic Support Networks and Social Reproduction
Authors: Read, R.
Journal: Sociology
eISSN: 1469-8684
ISSN: 0038-0385
DOI: 10.1177/00380385241266043
Abstract:During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020–2021, voluntary and community networks in the UK mobilised to provide practical help in neighbourhoods and communities. This article locates these networks within longer-term historical trajectories of social care policy and provision. Drawing on data from a qualitative study from southern England, this article explores how pandemic community responses fulfilled and scaled up the pre-pandemic policy objective of expanding volunteer and unwaged community labour in social care provision. Feminist theories of social reproduction are applied to explore how this occurred in ways that were bound up with, and reproductive of, neoliberal capitalist social relations. Community and volunteer support networks sustained many lives through the pandemic, but they also shielded capital and the state from bearing the full costs of looking after people made vulnerable by the virus.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/40048/
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Preferred by: Rosie Read
Stay Home, Sustain Lives: Pandemic Support Networks and Social Reproduction
Authors: Read, R.
Journal: SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
eISSN: 1469-8684
ISSN: 0038-0385
DOI: 10.1177/00380385241266043
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/40048/
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Stay home, sustain lives: pandemic support networks and social reproduction
Authors: Read, R.
Journal: Sociology
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/00380385241266043
Abstract:During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2021, voluntary and community networks in the UK mobilised to provide practical help in neighbourhoods and communities. This paper locates these networks within longer-term historical trajectories of social care policy and provision. Drawing on data from a qualitative study from southern England, this article explores how pandemic community responses fulfilled and scaled up the pre-pandemic policy objective of expanding volunteer and unwaged community labour in social care provision. Feminist theories of social reproduction are applied to explore how this occurred in ways that were bound up with, and reproductive of, neoliberal capitalist social relations. Community and volunteer support networks sustained many lives through the pandemic, but they also shielded capital and the state from bearing the full costs of looking after people made vulnerable by the virus.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/40048/
Source: Manual
Stay home, sustain lives: pandemic support networks and social reproduction
Authors: Read, R.
Journal: Sociology
Publisher: Sage
Abstract:During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2021, voluntary and community networks in the UK mobilised to provide practical help in neighbourhoods and communities. This paper locates these networks within longer-term historical trajectories of social care policy and provision. Drawing on data from a qualitative study from southern England, this article explores how pandemic community responses fulfilled and scaled up the pre-pandemic policy objective of expanding volunteer and unwaged community labour in social care provision. Feminist theories of social reproduction are applied to explore how this occurred in ways that were bound up with, and reproductive of, neoliberal capitalist social relations. Community and volunteer support networks sustained many lives through the pandemic, but they also shielded capital and the state from bearing the full costs of looking after people made vulnerable by the virus.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/40048/
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