Open AccessChild care and COVID: Precarious communities in distanced times
Author(s) -
Beth Blue Swadener,
Lacey Peters,
Dana Frantz Bentley,
Xiomara Diaz,
Marianne N. Bloch
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
global studies of childhood
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.244
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 2043-6106
DOI - 10.1177/2043610620970552
Subject(s) - precarity , embodied cognition , covid-19 , narrative , care work , sociology , citizenship , pandemic , ethics of care , neoliberalism (international relations) , work (physics) , child care , psychology , gender studies , political science , social science , medicine , nursing , politics , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , engineering , computer science , law , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease
Drawing from an analysis of responses to COVID affecting the ECCE sector in the US, including the narratives of early childhood educators, we engage with several questions. These include: How is care work with children constructed and affected by COVID-19? How might current responses and policies be understood through the lens of social citizenship and the collective/the individual? How do these issues reflect the precarity of the ECCE sector? How are embodied and emotional aspects of care work manifesting in early educator/caregiver lives in the time of the pandemic? Who is caring for the caregivers and what care may be needed? How can we re-imagine the care of ourselves, and in relation to an ethics of care for the other?
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