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Isolation
Author(s) -
O'Shea Saoirse Caitlin
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.12464
Subject(s) - autoethnography , isolation (microbiology) , reflexivity , covid-19 , narrative , pandemic , sociology , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , psychology , art , gender studies , literature , medicine , social science , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This article is a messy account not of the COVID‐19 pandemic but one written during the pandemic. Although written over several successive evenings it is not a linear narrative that builds on a chain of passing moments teleologically to an end. It is not a diary, just a collection of scattered thoughts about living during COVID‐19, the (lack of) care that many elderly people receive and how we, or perhaps only I, struggle to cope in these exceptional times. This is not a typical autoethnography, it is not reflexive writing and there is no conclusion albeit that the article ends.