Twamley, Katherine and Iqbal, Humera and Faircloth, Charlotte (Eds).
(2023)
Family Life in the Time of COVID: International Perspectives.
[Book].
UCL Press: London.
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Abstract
COVID-19 turned the world as we knew it upside down, impacting families around the world in profound ways. Seeking to understand this global experience, Family Life in the Time of COVID brings together case studies from 10 countries that explore how local responses to the pandemic shaped, and were shaped by, understandings and practices of family life. Carried out by an international team during the first year of the pandemic, these in-depth, longitudinal, qualitative investigations examined the impact of the pandemic on families and relationships across diverse contexts and cultures. They looked at how families made sense of complex lockdown laws, how they coped with collective worry about the unknown, managed their finances, fed themselves, and got to grips with online work and schooling to understand better how life had transformed (or not). In short, the research revealed their everyday joys and struggles in times of great uncertainty. Each case study follows the same methodology revealing experiences in Argentina, Chile, Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the USA. They show how local government responses were understood and responded to by families, and how different cultures and life circumstances impacted everyday life during the pandemic. Ultimately the analysis demonstrates how experiences of global social upheaval are shaped by international and local policies, as well as the sociocultural ideas and practices of diverse families.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Family Life in the Time of COVID: International Perspectives |
| ISBN: | 9781800081727 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800081727 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800081727 |
| Publisher version: | http://10.14324/111.9781800081727 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Twamley, K., Iqbal, H. and Faircloth, C. (eds). 2023. Family Life in the Time of COVID: International perspectives. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111. 9781800081727 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | ethnography, family life, family practices, global study, digital research, Argentina, Chile, Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA, lockdown laws |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10173761 |
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