Multispecies Childcare: Child Veganism and the Reimagining of Health, Reproduction, and Gender in Switzerland

Ballif, Edmée

doi:10.1080/01459740.2023.2240944

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“…Each vignette serves as "thick description" (Geertz, 1973) of the lived experience of ECAs, followed by an analysis of the different types of COVID labor we faced at each of these three stages of the pandemic. Drawing on our backgrounds in the sociology of work, gender, and parenting studies (Ballif, 2020;Ballif, 2023aBallif, , 2023bBallif & Zinn, 2023;Zinn, 2016Zinn, , 2019Zinn & Hofmeister, 2022), we critically appraised our experiences together, identifying themes and refining our analysis through consecutive rounds of discussion and writing.…”

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Persistent pandemic: The unequal impact of COVID labor on early career academics

Ballif,

Zinn

2023

Gender Work & Organization

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has not only highlighted preexisting inequalities in academia but has also exacerbated them while giving rise to novel forms of disparities. Drawing upon our experiences as women, parents, and early career academics (ECAs) in Switzerland and enriched by feminist theory on reproductive labor and carework, we examine the unequal impacts of the pandemic. First, our analysis reveals how the pandemic disproportionately impacted ECAs, a group already in a position of precarity within academia. Second, we identify the broad range of tasks brought about by the pandemic as “COVID labor”. This essential labor—undervalued, invisible, and often unpaid—had a particularly negative impact on ECAs. Third, looking at various intersections of difference, we emphasize that the experience of COVID labor was far from uniform among ECAs with institutional responses disregarding its extent and unequal distribution. In conclusion, we underscore the importance of acknowledging the long‐term consequences of COVID labor on ECAs, particularly those belonging to underrepresented groups. Neglecting these issues may lead to the loss of a wide range of talented scholars for reasons that are not related to the quality of their academic performance.

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Persistent pandemic: The unequal impact of COVID labor on early career academics

Ballif,

Zinn

2023

Gender Work & Organization

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Vegan labor: the intensification of family foodwork at the intersection of dietary and gender norms

Ballif

2024

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Nurturing futures through the maternal microbiome

Pala,

Kenny

2024

Sociology Health & Illness

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Recently there has been growing recognition of the productive and protective features of our microbial kin and the crucial role of 'commensal' microbes in supporting and sustaining health. Current microbiological and pharmacological literature is increasingly highlighting the role of maternal gut microbiomes in the long‐term health of both mothers and children. Drawing on the information and advice directed towards Australian parents from conception through the first years of a child's life, we consider its messaging about the need to secure for the foetus/future‐child an enduring, optimal state of health by managing the maternal microbiome. We argue that this post‐Pasteurian trend gives rise to relations of care that are, at once, newly collective and more‐than‐human—but also disciplinary in ways that position the maternal microbiome as a new site of scrutiny that disproportionately responsibilises and burdens mothers. We notice how microbiome research is used both to reframe motherhood as a form of micro(bial)‐management and to maintain motherhood as a medicalised process. The feminist and more‐than‐human potential that this research can provide is missing in the way these resources are presented to parents.

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Multispecies Childcare: Child Veganism and the Reimagining of Health, Reproduction, and Gender in Switzerland

Cited by 3 publications

References 59 publications

Persistent pandemic: The unequal impact of COVID labor on early career academics

Persistent pandemic: The unequal impact of COVID labor on early career academics

Vegan labor: the intensification of family foodwork at the intersection of dietary and gender norms

Nurturing futures through the maternal microbiome

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