一位印度学术母亲在2019冠状病毒病期间的反思:一个自我民族志的叙述

Ketoki Mazumdar
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在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间,做母亲将一系列育儿挑战摆在了首位,并使母亲本已存在的无形工作量和压力具体化。自2020年3月以来,学校、日托、课外活动等通常的支持系统一夜之间消失了,母亲的工作受到了更高的体力和精神劳动的影响,在扮演母亲、伴侣、监护人、朋友、雇员和雇主等多种角色的同时,还要承担更大的照顾孩子和家庭的责任,确保每个人都安全!不幸的是,这场大流行对世界各地的职业母亲产生了不利影响,随着总工作量的增加,她们往往不得不重新考虑自己的职业生涯,同时还要应付工作、照顾孩子和家务的需求。本章是一种尝试,使用一种自我民族志的方法,通过一位印度学术母亲的眼睛来理解表演母亲的生活经历。作为一名学术母亲,在积极照顾年幼的孩子并确保家庭正常运转的同时,致力于在线教学、学习、研究和出版以及生产力要求方面存在着挑战,所有这些都在不熟悉的流行病生存环境中发挥了作用。尽管目前印度的社会文化格局已经取得了进步,但在这个体系中仍然存在父权制的隐喻,这进一步加剧了母性的挑战。从社会建构主义的角度来看,这个个人的叙述将通过性别平等的视角来呈现传统印度家庭制度的变化——在家庭中平等养育和分担责任。除此之外,还将介绍作者在日常生活中如何建立自我同情和正念练习的元素,以帮助巧妙地应对COVID-19疲劳。我希望我的个人叙述能够为印度的学术母亲们提供支持,倡导在她们自己内部进行更多的结构性变革,同时强调在她们的家庭中需要自我照顾和优雅,以便在疫情期间更加平衡和共同承担做母亲的责任。
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Reflections of an Indian academic mother during COVID-19: An autoethnographic account
Motherhood during the COVID-19 pandemic has brought forward a host of parenting challenges to the forefront and crystallized the already existing invisible workload and stress on mothers. With the usual support system in the form of schools, day-care, extra-curricular activities all vanishing overnight since March 2020, the process of mothering has been affected with higher physical and emotional labour and a greater responsibility for managing care of the children and household while playing a multitude of roles – mother, partner, guardian, friend, employee and employer – ensuring everyone is safe! Unfortunately, the pandemic has adversely affected professionally employed mothers around the world, often making them rethink their careers with the increase in overall workload and juggling the demands of work and childcare and household chores. This chapter is an endeavour using an autoethnographic method towards understanding the lived experiences of performing motherhood through the eyes of an Indian academic mother. As an academic mother, there have been challenges towards dedicatedly engaging with teaching online, learning, research and publishing, and productivity demands while actively mothering a young child and making sure the house runs like clockwork, all played out in the unfamiliar ground of pandemic survival. Even though there have been advances made in the current Indian sociocultural landscape, there are still tropes of patriarchy present within the system, which further exacerbates the mothering challenges. Using a social-constructionist lens, this personal account will present a slice of change within the traditional Indian family system through the lens of gender equality – equal parenting and shared responsibility within the household. Along with this, how building elements of self-compassion and mindfulness practices in the author’s daily routine aided in skilfully manoeuvring the grips of COVID-19 fatigue will also be presented. I hope this personal narrative will extend support to fellow Indian academic mothers towards advocating for more structural changes both within themselves, while highlighting the need for self-care and grace as well as within their homes towards a more balanced and shared responsibility of performing motherhood through the pandemic.
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