My colleague Gülşah Başkavak and I are very proud to announce that our article submitted in October 2020 titled “Contested Daily Routines, Contested Care. Children with Type 1 Diabetes in Covid-19 Times” has been published in the Special Issue of the Childhood Vunerability Journal.
We are immensely proud and thank the Editors-in-Chief Sabine Andresen, Gill Main & Julia König, the Editorial to the Second Issue of Childhood Vulnerability Journal Sabine Andresen, Julia König & Aysel Sultan as well as the reviewers who carefully commented on our article and helped us to improve it.
You’ll find the abstract below, but the article is open access: Şahinol, M., Başkavak, G. Contested Daily Routines, Contested Care. Children with Type 1 Diabetes in Covid-19 Times. Childhood Vulnerability (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41255-021-00017-0
Abstract
The conventional treatment of Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is especially demanding for children, both physically and psychologically (Iversen et al. 2018). Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems (CGM) are an important aid for children and their families in dealing with the disease. In their work, however, Şahinol and Başkavak (2020) point out that CGM carry the risk of viewing T1D as a technologically solvable problem instead of considering the disease as a whole. This is mainly creating confidence in technology due to CGM experiences while neglecting significant dietary measures and exercises needed to be integrated into daily routines. During the current pandemic, this problem seems to take on a whole new level. Based on two periods of in-depth interviews and observations conducted with 8 families with T1D children aged 6 to 14 living in Istanbul and Ankara (Turkey) from May to November 2019 and again from May to June 2020, we compare and focus on the experiences prior to and during the pandemic time. We argue that despite the possibility of technological regulation of the disease, the vulnerability of children is increased and, more than ever, depends on socio-bio-technical entanglements.
Related project on digital health and self-tracking: https://melikesahinol.com/valid/