Coworking Spaces as Social Infrastructures of Care

Merkel, Janet

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-42268-3_6

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“…In this line of argumentation, in cities coworking spaces might constitute micro-spaces of care [38]. Furthermore, a care perspective foregrounds coworking's affective and emotional dimensions, which are rarely addressed in coworking research [32], forthcoming).…”

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Caring Practices in and Beyond Coworking Spaces

Merkel,

Belvončíková,

Zhurbas-Litvin

2024

Evolution of New Working Spaces

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Coworking and coworking spaces have proliferated over the last decade, and research has shown how these flexible, shared workspaces provide crucial resources for freelance and self-employed workers. This chapter aims to understand how care is practised in and through coworking spaces. Drawing on interviews with female hosts in different spaces across Europe, we apply Joan Tronto’s ethics of care framework (Tronto in Moral boundaries: A political argument for an ethic of care. Routledge [43]; Tronto in Caring democracy: Markets, equality, and justice. NYU Press [44]) to analyze caring practices in coworking spaces. This chapter adds to the literature on how coworking hosts and community managers provide care to “maintain, continue, and repair” (Fisher and Tronto in Work and identity in women’s lives. SUNY Press [18], p. 40) community and the hospitable atmosphere in coworking spaces across Europe.

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Section: Coworking: a Care Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Caring Practices in and Beyond Coworking Spaces

Merkel,

Belvončíková,

Zhurbas-Litvin

2024

Evolution of New Working Spaces

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Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces

Orel,

Mariotti,

Zhurbas

2024

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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In light of the Russian–Ukrainian conflict, this study explores the transformation and resilience of Ukrainian coworking spaces amid significant social disruptions, contrasting war-driven changes with those prompted by other exogenous shocks like the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Utilising problem-centred interviews and co-constructed autoethnographic narratives, we probe the evolving roles and organisational shifts these spaces undergo. Despite adversity, they have showcased resilience, adaptability and in most part remained functional. This research illuminates the transformative nature of community-based work environments, paving the way for the development of innovative coworking models resilient to diverse social disruptions.

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Coworking Spaces as Social Infrastructures of Care

Cited by 2 publications

References 44 publications

Caring Practices in and Beyond Coworking Spaces

Caring Practices in and Beyond Coworking Spaces

Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces

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