1st Edition
Flexible Lives Spatial, Temporal, and Behavioural Boundaries in a Fluid World of Work and Home
Introduction - Flexible lives: spatial, temporal, and behavioural boundaries in a fluid world of work and home
Michal Izak, Stefanie Reissner and Harriet Shortt
1. Is physical co-presence a prerequisite for Durkheimian collective effervescence? Reflections on remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic
Tom Vine
2. ‘Another work routine is possible’: everyday experiences of (unexpected) remote work in Italy
Alessandro Gandini and Emma Garavaglia
3. Neither work nor leisure: temporalities and life world realities of split shift work in the Austrian care sector
Karin Sardadvar and Cornelia Reiter
4. Toiling from the homespace, longing for the workplace: gendered workplace imaginaries in an (in)flexible work scenario
Lena Kurban Rouhana and Michelle Mielly
5. ‘Half of my body is at work and the other half at home’: narratives of placemaking while working from homes in rural and small-town India
Rajeshwari Chennangodu and Advaita Rajendra
6. The multidimensionality of care in remote work: women academics in Chile during the COVID-19 pandemic
Claudia Mora, Rosario Undurraga and Elisabeth Simbürger
Epilogue
Stefanie Reissner and Michal Izak
Biography
Stefanie Reissner is Professor of Organization Studies at Durham University Business School, UK. Her research interests include flexible working, sensemaking, identity and qualitative methods.
Michal Izak is Professor in Organization Studies at Chester Business School, University of Chester, UK. His research interests include the future of work primarily in the context of its flexibility and sustainability, as well as organizational communication.
