Working: Glimpses of the Pandemic from This Fine Place So Far from Home

Authors

Miranda Mosier, Portland State UniversityFollow

Published In

Qualitative Social Work

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2021

Subjects

Social Work education

Abstract

This manuscript was written for a special issue on Reflections on a Pandemic. In it, I write as an emerging scholar from a working-class background. The pandemic has underscored the divergence between my working life as an academic, which is unintelligible to those I love, and their “essential” work, which increasingly renders them expendable. In this essay I struggle with the tensions that other working-class scholars have articulated before me: I am tentatively welcome in a place that asks, or even demands, that I become someone whose work is unrecognizable to my loved ones. Through the use of reflective inquiry and (counter) narratives, I am working to alter social work education, creating space for others from working-class backgrounds who might find themselves in this fine place so far from home.

Rights

Copyright (c) 2021 The Authors

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325020973325

DOI

10.1177/1473325020973325

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/35308

Citation Details

Mosier, M. (2021). Working: Glimpses of the pandemic from this fine place so far from home. Qualitative Social Work, 20(1-2), 105–109. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325020973325