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Care and community revalued during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A feminist couple perspective
Author(s) -
Vohra Swati,
Taneja Mandeep
Publication year - 2021
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.12507
Subject(s) - ethics of care , perspective (graphical) , pandemic , covid-19 , sociology , narrative , feminist ethics , environmental ethics , political science , gender studies , medicine , law , philosophy , linguistics , disease , pathology , artificial intelligence , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The COVID‐19 pandemic led us to understand and revalue care ethics within our daily lives and communities based on the feminist theory of care ethics. This article is a personal reflection of an academic couple living in Japan as we reflect on our experiences and the challenges encountered in caring for ourselves and our community. We discuss the ideas of care theory mainly: caring‐about and caring‐for, interchangeably in our discussion across the three‐stage categories: Home — A Commonplace; Care Ethics in Community; and Care Ethics for Self. Through these personal narratives, we strive to recognize the struggles of living through the pandemic in a virtually connected world that often disconnects us from self. We foster the idea of embracing care ethics as a starting point at an individual level.