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Struggles for Care Infrastructures in Serbia: The Pandemic, Dispossessed Care, and Housing
Kämpfe um Care-Infrastrukturen in Serbien: Pandemie, Wohnen und Sorge-Enteignung
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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic added a new layer of consequences to a care crisis that was already harsh in "post-socialist" Serbia. This paper examines the failures of the care infrastructure in Serbia during the pandemic and the resulting intensification of temporary networks of care. We look at housing as... view more
The COVID-19 pandemic added a new layer of consequences to a care crisis that was already harsh in "post-socialist" Serbia. This paper examines the failures of the care infrastructure in Serbia during the pandemic and the resulting intensification of temporary networks of care. We look at housing as a key care infrastructure in the pandemic and discuss how care thrives across the urban space. To conceptualise how housing is sustained as a care infrastructure in the post-Yugoslav context, we introduce the notion of infra-commoning. We discuss how infra-commoning generates dynamic social and economic reproduction patterns that are the foundation of social organisation. Finally, we analyse anti-eviction struggles as an infracommoning practice and explain how collective efforts of solidarity, mutual aid, and self-care are thwarted and rendered legally impossible.... view less
Keywords
Serbia; epidemic; caregiving; crisis; health care; public health; social policy; housing policy; public housing; infrastructure; self-help; self-organization; post-socialist country
Classification
Health Policy
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Free Keywords
housing; care; commoning; COVID-19; pandemic
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 189-208
Journal
Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 4
Issue topic
Forum: Caring in Times of Global Pandemic
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed