Every loaf of bread is political – reflections on collective care responses to covid-19 in cape town

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dc.contributor.authorvan Ryneveld, Manya
dc.contributor.authorSchneider, Helen
dc.contributor.authorBrady, Leanne
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-17T07:46:29Z
dc.date.available2025-01-17T07:46:29Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractFeminist perspectives on care have demonstrated how capitalism undervalues care work. The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted this further, as systems of production and social reproduction became destabilized globally. In many countries, the formal pandemic response fell short of attending to the daily, fundamental care needs of people living through the crisis, especially those compromised by the socio-economic effects of the pandemic. These needs were often attended to at the community level. This article explores a community-led network of care, known as CANs, that emerged in response to the pandemic in Cape Town. It makes three overarching observations. The first is that community-led responses were characterised by a push towards the collectivisation of care work. The second is that this enabled emergent strategies and relational practices of care, centring notions of solidarity, inter-dependence and horizontal exchange of resources and knowledge. Finally, we observed that, although the devaluation of care work limited the recognition and material support extended to CANs, opportunities to re-politicise care work as resistance work emerged. These represent a prefigurative moment in which alternative logics and strategies can transform the vision of our health and care systems, and the notion of community participation in and ownership of those systems.
dc.identifier.citationvan Ryneveld, M., Schneider, H., Brady, L. and Whyle, E., 2024. Every loaf of bread is political–Reflections on collective care responses to Covid-19 in Cape Town. Social Science & Medicine, 349, p.116881.
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116881
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/19800
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier Ltd
dc.subjectFeminist perspectives
dc.subjectCovid-19 pandemic
dc.subjectCommunity care
dc.subjectHealth care delivery
dc.subjectCapitalism
dc.titleEvery loaf of bread is political – reflections on collective care responses to covid-19 in cape town
dc.typeArticle

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