Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19
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.
The authors document their experiences arising within academia and beyond it, gathering narratives from across the globeAustralia, Canada, Ghana, Finland, India, Norway, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States along with transnational engagements with Bolivia, Iran, Nepal, and Taiwan. In an era where the older rules about work and family related to our survival, wellbeing, and dignity are rapidly being transformed, this book shows that distress and traumas are emerging and deepening across the divides within and between the global North and South, depending on the intersecting structures that have affected each of us. It documents our distress and trauma and how we have worked to lift each other up amidst severe precarities.
A global co-written project, this book shows how we are moving to decolonize our scholarship. It will be of interest to an interdisciplinary array of scholars in the areas of intersectionality, gender, family, race, sexuality, migration, and global and transnational sociology.
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.
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Dr Andrea Pet (Central European University, Hungary)
Professor Ann Phoenix (Institute of Education, University of London, UK)
Professor Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Syracuse University, USA)
Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19
Displacements and Disruptions
Edited by Melanie Heath, Akosua K. Darkwah, Josephine Beoku-Betts and Bandana Purkayastha
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Names: Heath, Melanie, editor. | Darkwah, Akosua K., editor. | Beoku-Betts, Josephine A., 1951 editor. | Purkayastha, Bandana, 1956 editor.
Title: Global feminist autoethnographies during COVID-19 : displacements and disruptions / edited by Melanie Heath, Akosua K. Darkwah, Josephine Beoku-Betts and Bandana Purkayastha.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |
Series: Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021038431 (print) | LCCN 2021038432 (ebook) | ISBN 9781032122625 (hbk) | ISBN 9781032122656 (pbk) | ISBN 9781003223832 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: FeministsHistory21st century. | Women scholarsHistory21st century. | Feminist theoryHistory21st century. | COVID-19 (Disease)Social aspects. | Social changeHistory 21st century.
Classification: LCC HQ1155 .G57 2022 (print) | LCC HQ1155 (ebook) | DDC 305.4209dc23/eng/20211022
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021038431
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021038432
ISBN: 978-1-032-12262-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-12265-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-22383-2 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003223832
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We dedicate this book to academics and their loved ones across the globe who have suffered and died due to COVID-19.
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- 16.1 Frequency and percentage of COVID-related posts on my Facebook page 2020
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- P.1 COVID 19 cases and deaths. Selected Countries. July 13, 2021
Contributors
Malak Afaneh double majored in Politics & Middle Eastern Studies at Pomona College and is currently a first-year student at Berkeley Law School. As an undergraduate, she worked with the University Network for Human Rights and the National Council of U.S.-Arab Relations, served as the founder of Rosie the Hijabi, LLC, and was Pomona College Senior Class President. As the proud daughter of Palestinian-Jordanian immigrants, she hopes to practice international human rights law to help dismantling norms of violence and colonialism in the Middle East.