Caring through a screen: caring for kin under lockdown

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16293510454010

R. Benchekroun

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Abstract

COVID-19 and UK-wide lockdown measures in spring 2020 confined people to their homes, with implications for exchanging care. In a small-scale qualitative study, I examined the impact on individuals’ everyday caring practices with adult kin beyond the home. In this article, drawing on empirical evidence from my study, I argue that lockdown restrictions on in-person interactions and the increased reliance on ICTs shaped interactions and how relationships were experienced. The shift in practices highlighted the significance of the physicality and embodiment of everyday practices of care and perceptions of relationships. I argue that ‘caring through a screen’ under lockdown had impacts on subjective and relational wellbeing. I use the concept of developing co-presence across distance through ICTs to analyse shifts in family caring practices in the unique context of a national lockdown. I show how experiences of the disruption of the physicality of everyday micro-acts of care have shaped perceptions of family relationships.

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隔屏关怀:照顾被封锁的亲人

2019冠状病毒病和2020年春季英国范围内的封锁措施将人们限制在家中，这对交换护理产生了影响。在一项小规模的定性研究中，我研究了家庭以外的成年亲属对个人日常照顾行为的影响。在本文中，根据我研究中的经验证据，我认为对面对面互动的封锁限制和对信息通信技术的日益依赖影响了互动和关系的体验方式。实践中的转变突出了日常护理实践和关系感知的物质性和具体化的重要性。我认为，在封锁下，“通过屏幕进行关怀”对主观和关系健康都有影响。我利用通过信息通信技术发展异地共同存在的概念，分析了在国家封锁的独特背景下家庭护理实践的变化。我展示了日常微观护理行为的物理破坏经历如何塑造了对家庭关系的看法。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.