Abstract
This paper explores the boundary-making practices enacted by the hospital. Taking a hospital in Sydney, Australia, as our case, we investigate how the hospital holds together as a care environment through the coordinating movements of many materials, spaces, bodies, technologies, and affects. Drawing on interviews with hospital healthcare workers involved in care, research, and management related to COVID-19, we examine the multiplying effects of these movements to trace the ways in which the hospital is (re)made in relation with pandemic assemblages. We accentuate the material affordances of care environments and how care is adapted through the reshaping of the spaces and flows of the hospital. Through this, we highlight how care providers can work with the fluidity of the hospital, including through reorganizing routines and spaces of care, engaging with communication technologies to enact care at many scales, and remaking mundane materials as medical objects in the evolving care environment.
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