abstract: 'The COVID-19 pandemic threatens both lives and livelihoods. To reduce

  the spread of the virus, governments have introduced crisis management

  interventions that include border closures, quarantines, strict social

  distancing, marshalling of essential workers and enforced homeworking.

  COVID-19 measures are necessary to save the lives of some of the most

  vulnerable people within society, and yet in parallel they create a

  range of negative everyday effects for already marginalized people.

  Likely unintended consequences of the management of the COVID-19 crisis

  include elevated risk for workers in low-paid, precarious and care-based

  employment, over-representation of minority ethnic groups in case

  numbers and fatalities, and gendered barriers to work. Drawing upon

  feminist ethics of care, I theorize a radical alternative to the

  normative assumptions of rationalist crisis management. Rationalist

  approaches to crisis management are typified by utilitarian logics,

  masculine and militaristic language, and the belief that crises follow

  linear processes of signal detection, preparation/prevention,

  containment, recovery and learning. By privileging the quantifiable -

  resources and measurable outcomes - such approaches tend to omit

  considerations of pre-existing structural disadvantage. This article

  contributes a new theorization of crisis management that is grounded in

  feminist ethics to provide a care-based concern for all crisis affected

  people.'
affiliation: 'Branicki, LJ (Corresponding Author), Macquarie Univ, Macquarie Business
  Sch, 4 Eastern Rd, Macquarie Pk, NSW 2113, Australia.

  Branicki, Layla J., Macquarie Univ, Macquarie Business Sch, 4 Eastern Rd, Macquarie
  Pk, NSW 2113, Australia.'
author: Branicki, Layla J.
author-email: layla.branicki@mq.edu.au
author_list:
- family: Branicki
  given: Layla J.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/gwao.12491
earlyaccessdate: JUL 2020
eissn: 1468-0432
files: []
issn: 0968-6673
journal: GENDER WORK AND ORGANIZATION
keywords: COVID-19; crisis management; ethics of care; feminism
keywords-plus: GENDER
language: English
month: SEP
number: 5, SI
number-of-cited-references: '53'
orcid-numbers: Branicki, Layla/0000-0002-0952-9504
pages: 872-883
papis_id: 6819bb4ea31fffc93b087647b007e620
ref: Branicki2020covid19ethics
researcherid-numbers: Branicki, Layla/AFP-6958-2022
times-cited: '74'
title: COVID-19, ethics of care and feminist crisis management
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000545081200001
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usage-count-since-2013: '56'
volume: '27'
web-of-science-categories: Management; Women's Studies
year: '2020'