Abstract

The stay-at-home measures imposed by governments to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic have drawn attention to the domestic sphere. Besides spending much more time at home in general, people also required the private sphere to fulfill multiple functions, including as workplaces, schools, and fitness centers. Within a qualitative social research framework, the paper examines how people in Vienna, Austria re-ordered their homes during lockdowns to address these challenges. We discuss ordering work as a form of care work regarding the home’s conception, realization and maintenance, and understand the home as being produced in and through practices, including ordering practices. In particular, we are interested in whether and how ordering practices gained higher significance during the pandemic, and in how—by reordering their homes—people re-negotiated their social relations and the inequalities connected to care work and the home.

摘要

各国政府为应对 COVID-19 大流行而采取的居家措施引起了人们对国内领域的关注。除了通常在家里花费更多时间外，人们还需要私人空间来实现多种功能，包括作为工作场所、学校和健身中心。在定性社会研究框架内，本文研究了奥地利维也纳的人们如何在封锁期间重新安排他们的房屋以应对这些挑战。我们将订购工作作为一种关于家庭的概念、实现和维护的护理工作形式进行讨论，并将家庭理解为在实践中并通过实践产生，包括订购实践。我们特别感兴趣的是，在大流行期间，订购做法是否以及如何获得更高的重要性，