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The Never‐ending Shift: A feminist reflection on living and organizing academic lives during the coronavirus pandemic
Author(s) -
Boncori Ilaria
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
gender, work and organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.159
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0432
pISSN - 0968-6673
DOI - 10.1111/gwao.12451
Subject(s) - narrative , space (punctuation) , pandemic , sociology , embodied cognition , privilege (computing) , consciousness , reflection (computer programming) , work (physics) , covid-19 , gender studies , psychology , political science , epistemology , computer science , medicine , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , disease , pathology , neuroscience , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language , operating system
This article offers a feminist reflection written as a nocturnal stream of consciousness exposing the embodied, emotional and professional experience of living and working during a pandemic outbreak. Framed within a feminist approach, this personal narrative provides an example of the effects of such unexpected and unprecedented circumstances on personal and professional academic lives. Developed during the first stage of the (inter)national coronavirus pandemic, my reflections address issues of privilege; emotional labour; the virtual invasion of the home space within the current increasingly ambiguous space of ‘the workplace'; workload; and wellbeing. Further, I consider how the newly enforced flexible work measures based on online tools have turned current work–life dynamics into a ‘Never‐ending Shift'.