‘It was too much technology … I chucked my laptop across the room': young women, networked affect and the positivity imperative
Journal of Youth Studies,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown, С. 1 - 18
Опубликована: Апрель 22, 2024
Engaging
with
theories
of
networked
affect,
this
paper
highlights
the
importance
new
ways
thinking
about
young
women's
relations
social
media
beyond
'good
or
bad'
narratives,
and
towards
more
affective,
embodied
agentic
digital
technologies.
Drawing
upon
interviews
45
women
(16–25
years),
we
reveal
emergence
intensities
during
COVID-19
pandemic,
reshaping
encounters.
As
well
as
highlighting
technologies
for
escaping
stressors
pandemic
life,
practices
surfaced
creativity,
connection
moments
joy.
Yet
many
women,
'positivity
imperative'
to
perform
proactive
productive
feminine
subjectivities
re-turned
their
relations,
surfacing
negative
affects
(i.e.
guilt,
anger,
shame)
themselves
bodies.
There
was
a
affective
'stickiness'
these
feelings,
prompting
some
navigate
boundaries
around
engagement
protect
own
wellbeing.
In
so
doing,
see
how
acted
'jolt
spark',
activating
entanglements
technologies,
evoking
ethical
care
bodies
subjectivities.
Язык: Английский
“It made me feel like a shit parent”: an intersectional analysis of pandemic mothering
Frontiers in Sociology,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
9
Опубликована: Апрель 2, 2024
The
COVID-19
pandemic
brought
to
the
fore
everyday
and
exceptional
challenges
for
mothers.
Rarely,
however,
did
research
or
social
commentary
acknowledge
multiplicities
of
motherhood
during
this
prolonged
period
risk,
disruption,
uncertainty.
This
paper
draws
upon
interviews
with
24
mothers
living
in
Aotearoa
New
Zealand
pandemic,
including
women
who
were
pregnant
gave
birth
lockdowns,
teenage
mothers,
single
low-income
working
sample
was
intentionally
diverse,
Māori,
Pacific,
Asian
migrant
Engaging
an
intersectional
lens
on
women's
health,
builds
extends
feminist
mothers'
experiences
highlighting
many
different
facing
diverse
social,
cultural,
economic
positionalities
various
stages
motherhood.
Across
sample,
we
reveal
significant
emotional
toll
particularly
absence
critical
medical
health
support
systems
lockdown
periods
sustained
restrictions.
Many
described
how
affected
their
feelings
about
motherhood,
prompting
new
reflections
relationships
home,
family,
work,
broader
society.
Despite
some
similarities,
further
intensified
by
forms
isolation,
judgement,
discrimination.
In
way,
shed
light
gendering
maternal
life,
but
also
need
more
culturally
gender-responsive
policies
that
multi-layered
complexities
lives.
Язык: Английский
New Trends of Thought in Response to Post-Pandemic Work Precariousness Among Second-Generation Romanian Citizens in Spain
Societies,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
14(11), С. 232 - 232
Опубликована: Ноя. 11, 2024
Drawing
on
65
in-depth
interviews
with
young
Romanians
between
22
and
33
years
old,
the
contribution
of
this
article
is
to
offer
an
innovative
analysis
work
experiences
second-generation
people
who,
having
studied
completed
their
degrees
in
Spain
during
pandemic,
are
developing
skills
creativity
a
difficult
labour
market.
I
argue
that
unlike
parents’
generation,
who
many
cases
have
returned
home
or
practice
mobility,
generation
wishes
remain
Spain.
Consequently,
(im)mobility
experienced
by
has
become
fundamental
post-pandemic
trend.
Three
interlinked
profiles
were
identified:
(1)
graduates
doing
for
which
they
overqualified,
want
find
better
jobs;
(2)
master’s
doctoral
now
own
business,
applying
research
funding
unemployed;
(3)
unemployed
making
living
from
self-employment
aspire
business.
The
conclusions
highlight
new
trends
thought
among
educated
trained
pandemic
terms
how
overcome
precariousness
live
Язык: Английский