Homely Orderings in Times of Stay-At-Home Measures

Autor(en)

Susanna Azevedo, Raphaela Kohout, Ana Rogojanu, Georg Wolfmayr

Abstrakt

The stay-at-home measures imposed by governments to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic have drawn attention to the domestic sphere. Besides spending much more time at home in general, people also required the private sphere to fulfill multiple functions, including as workplaces, schools, and fitness centers. Within a qualitative social research framework, the paper examines how people in Vienna, Austria re-ordered their homes during lockdowns to address these challenges. We discuss ordering work as a form of care work regarding the home’s conception, realization and maintenance, and understand the home as being produced in and through practices, including ordering practices. In particular, we are interested in whether and how ordering practices gained higher significance during the pandemic, and in how—by reordering their homes—people re-negotiated their social relations and the inequalities connected to care work and the home.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Europäische Ethnologie

Journal

Home Cultures

Band

19

Seiten

193-218

Anzahl der Seiten

26

ISSN

1751-7427

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/17406315.2022.2152178

Publikationsdatum

2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504010 Europäische Ethnologie, 504008 Ethnographie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/859997ca-7d23-4547-8d99-e8ddb866aff1