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THE VOICES OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE In one of the papers of this Special Issue, I Indignação and declaração corporal: Luta and artivism in Brazil during the times of the pandemic i , Yuliya Shymko, Camilla Quental, and Madeleine Navarro Mena take us to Brazil by providing a theoretically and methodologically disruptive piece that questions normative social and epistemic patterns, which the pandemic brought to the fore, in this part of the Global South. At the time of writing this editorial, it has been 2 years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, by drawing on the work of two Brazilian activist artists, Adriana Calcanhotto and Debora Diniz, who creatively problematize social inequalities over-exposed during the Covid pandemic in Brazil, the authors discuss the potential of activist art - I artivism i - to meaningfully address instances of public shaming. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Gender, Work & Organization is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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The spread of COVID-19 acutely challenges and affects not just economic markets, demographic statistics and healthcare systems, but indeed also the politics of organizing and becoming in a new everyday life of academia emerging in our homes. Through a collage of stories, snapshots, vignettes, photos and other reflections of everyday life, this collective contribution is catching a glimpse of corona-life and its micro-politics of multiple, often contradicting claims on practices as many of us live, work and care at home. It embodies concerns, dreams, anger, hope, numbness, passion and much more emerging amongst academics from across the world in response to the crisis. As such, this piece manifests a shared need to - together, apart - enact and explore constitutive relations of resistance, care and solidarity in these dis/organizing times of contested spaces, identities and agencies as we are living-working-caring at home during lockdowns.