Paper short abstract:

The project explores the affective dimensions of everyday moral dilemmas and ethical practices among caregivers who have been discouraged to touch and visit their loved ones which are the most fundamental ways of caring for those affected at homes and in care homes since the pandemic outbroke.

Paper long abstract:

The project explores the affective dimensions of everyday moral dilemmas and ethical practices among caregivers who have been discouraged to touch, kiss, hug, and visit their loved ones which are the most fundamental ways of caring and loving for those affected at homes and in care homes since the pandemic outbroke. Living under such a condition of extraordinary crisis, various feelings, emotions, moods, and imaginations are often exposed and play an important role in the process of everyday ethical decision-making and becoming ethical. Nevertheless, there are neither generally accepted moral and ethical theories of these affective, embodied, and material practices nor social scientific methods of these bodily transformations. By inviting them to a collaborative mobile (digital) and mapping project, I capture transformative affective-discursive ethical practices, revealing the moral and ethical assemblage and highlighting the possibility of dwelling with their loved one at a distance and at home.