Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19

Displacements and Disruptions
Herausgeber: Heath, Melanie; Beoku-Betts, Josephine; Darkwah, Akosua

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Produktbeschreibung

Global Feminist Autoethnographies bears witness to our displacements, disruptions, and distress as tenured faculty, faculty on temporary contracts, graduate students, and people connected to academia during COVID-19.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781032122625
• ISBN-10: 1032122625
• Artikelnr.: 62574892

Autorenporträt

Melanie Heath is Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster University. President, Research Committee on Women, Gender, and Society, International Sociological Association. Akosua K. Darkwah is Associate Professor of Sociology and current chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Ghana. Managing editor, Ghana Journal of Sociology and Anthropology. Josephine Beoku-Betts is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at Florida Atlantic University. Past President, Sociologists for Women in Society. Bandana Purkayastha is Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Executive Committee Member, International Sociological Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Displacements, Disruptions and Distress: An Introduction to Global Feminist
Autoethnographies During COVID-19
Part I: Disruptions
Introduction
Disruptions: Seismic Work and Life Shifts
1. The Pandemic and Our Entangled Lives: Experiencing the Many Relations of
Ruling
2. The Inequality the Pandemic Unveils: Teaching and Learning in the Times
of COVID
3. Disruption and Silence: Making Sense of Troubled Times Through
Autoethnographic Writing
4. "Network Problems": An Autoethnographic Reflection of the Challenges of
Undergraduate Education in Ghana in the Midst of a Global Pandemic
5. Navigating Empowerment and Activism in the Ivory Tower: A
Co-autoethnography Gives Voice to Feminist Identity in a Criminal Justice
Program
6. Writing on Self, Together: Collective Autoethnography as Praxis of
Solidarity and Collective Care during the Pandemic
7. Labor Transformations in the Academy under COVID-19 Through the Lens of
Intersectional Feminism: A Canadian Duoethnography
Part II: Distress
Introduction
Distress: Personal Trauma and Institutionalized Inequalities
8. Valuing a Feminist Ethics of Care in Pandemic Times
9. A Clinical Account of Breast Cancer Amid COVID-19
10. Gendered Life Transitions and the Blurring of Work-Family Boundaries
during COVID-19
11. Trying My Best to Be My Badass Self: Parenting, Homeschooling, and
Leading a Professional Feminist Academic Organization Amid a Pandemic
12. Invoking Abuelita Epistemologies for Academic Transformation in the
Coronavirus Age: Autoethnographic Reflections from a Motherscholar
Collective
13. An Autoethnography from a Student and Underpaid Employee
14. Black Women, Work, and COVID-19: Reflections on Navigating Graduate
School, Work, Motherhood and Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic
15. On the Margins of Hyperinvisibility and Hypervisibility: The Paradox of
Being an Asian American During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Part III: Displacements
Introduction
Displacements: Transnational Realities and Splintered Lives
16. One Virus, Two Worlds: A Taiwanese Queer Stranger's "World"-Traveling
and Loving in the COVID U.S.
17. Transnational Families, Welfare States, and Marriage Rules in the Time
of COVID-19
18. COVID-19: Lived Realities, Reflections, and Analysis
19. Knitting an Autoethnography
20. Disorientation, Disbelief, Distance
21. "Salaam, Hamvatan-e Aziz": Solidarity in the Time of Corona
22. (At) Home in Crisis
Conclusion: Reflections on the Pandemic from a Southern Feminist Scholar
Postscript: The Pandemic World in 2021