Covid, Crisis, Care, and Change?

Antonia Kupfer/Constanze Stutz: Continuity, not change: The unequal catastrophe of the Covid-19 pandemic. An introduction



1. The sphere of production, labour and professions



Karin Sardadvar: Ambivalent (in)visibility: Commercial cleaning work during the Covid-19 crisis in Austria

Frauke Grenz & Anne Günster: Who is relevant? And to Which System? The Re/Production of Power Relations during the Debate about 'System-Relevant' Professions from a Discourse Analytical Perspective

Daria Dudley 'Systemic Relevance' for Social Work: More than Just a Compliment - Not Yet a Proper Law. An Evaluation of Pandemic-Related Legal Changes in Germany


2. The sphere of reproduction and care



Céline Miani, Lisa Wandschneider, Stephanie Batram-Zantvoort, Oliver Razum: Covid-19 pandemic: A gender perspective on how lockdown measures have affected mothers with young children

Caterina Rohde-Abuba: Children as actors of family care during the Covid-19 pandemic

Rikela Fusha: Covid-19 case: Public health literacy in an adult sample of the Albanian population

Sayendri Panchadhyayi: Cartographies of Caring: Time, Temporality and Caring in Pandemic



3. (Transnational) state regulations


Ania Plomien/Alexandra Scheele/Martina Sproll: Social Reproduction and State Responses to the Global Covid-19 Pandemic: Keeping Capitalism on the Move?

Gundula Ludwig The Gendered Architecture of the State and the Covid-19 Pandemic


4. Directions of feminist transformation

Bianca Sola Claudio Time for caring in quarantine: The democratic value of spending and wasting time together
Loren Britton/Pinar Tuzcu Witnessing Fabrics: How Face Masks Change Social Perceptions During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Digital Times

Prof. Antonia Kupfer holds the Chair of Macro-Sociology at the Institute of Sociology at TU Dresden in Germany.
Constanze Stutz, M.A. works as a research assistant at the Institute of Sociology at TU Dresden in Germany.