Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women's reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities
Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women's reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities
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日常出行实践和护理道德：三个非洲城市新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 时期年轻女性对社会责任的反思
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10.1080/17450101.2022.2039561
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发表时间：
2022
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影响因子：
2.8
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Porter G
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作者：
Porter G
本文主要取材于年轻女性撰写的COVID-19日记，我们之前曾在阿布贾、开普敦和突尼斯的低收入社区的流动性研究中将她们培训为同行研究人员。一些人与父母或年长的大家庭成员住在一起，另一些人则有孩子需要照顾，但对避免传染的担忧迫使所有同行研究人员反思他们的日常社会空间流动实践。这包括他们是否/需要旅行多少或可以用虚拟旅行代替物理旅行;采取哪种交通方式以及何时采取;他们在移动中必须采取什么预防措施;需要什么样的参与策略来科普外部强加的规则和突发事件-以及他们的谈判，决定和经验对他们在国内的亲人健康的潜在影响。对这些流行病引发的责任的反思范围从社交距离和戴口罩到处理现金、问候方式和前往葬礼的问题。个人日记中对责任的个人解释表明，城市街道上的日常流动实践与家庭（和其他关系环境）内协商的护理关系之间存在复杂的纠缠，这种纠缠随着COVID故事的展开而出现并加深。
This paper draws principally from COVID-19 diaries written by young women whom we had previously trained as peer researchers in a mobility study of low-income neighbourhoods in Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. Some live with parents or older extended family members, others have children in their care, but concerns around avoiding contagion have forced all peer researchers to reflect on their everyday socio-spatial mobility practices. This includes whether/how much they need to travel or can substitute virtual for physical travel; which transport mode to take and when; what precautions they must take on the move; what strategies of engagement are required to cope with externally imposed rules and contingencies – and the potential impact of their negotiations, decisions and experiences on the health of those dear to them at home. Reflections on these pandemic-induced responsibilities range from social distancing and mask wearing to issues around handling cash, modes of greeting and travel to funerals. The personal interpretations of responsibility that are reported in individual diaries point to the complexity of entanglements between everyday mobility practices on city streets and negotiated relations of care within the household (and other relational settings) that have emerged and deepened as the COVID story unfolds.