The arrival of summer in the Balearic Islands is accompanied by a massive arrival of tourists who need services; an arrival that, in 2024, rubs the 4 million people, if we count only until the month of May. Many people work in these services, among them the floor maids, known as Kellys, dedicated to the … Read more
From June 26 to 29, 2024 the XV Spanish Congress of Sociology took place in Seville under the slogan: #SociologíaParaLaSociedadDigital (#SociologyForTheDigitalSociety). The XV Spanish Congress of Sociology has reached the attendance figure of almost 1,600 people analyzing the necessary tools so that the digital society is not thrown into a world that is not real. … Read more
Care has been one of the main topics of discussion and advocacy throughout the year in the Basque Country. On November 30 last year, a feminist general strike was held for the first time in the South of the Basque Country to demand the collective right to care, but this concept has yet to be … Read more
In 2022, the popular initiative Hernani Burujabe launched the “Auzozaintza” program. The initiative was launched with the aim of helping elderly people who find themselves in a situation of “fragile, unchosen loneliness” and has already been extended to several neighborhoods in Hernani. The mayor, Xabier Lertxundi, has pointed out that the main objective of “auzozaintza” … Read more
Last Wednesday, June 12, Màrius Domínguez i Amorós, Director of the Copolis Research Group “Well-being, Community and Social Control”, presented on the panel “Challenges and policies towards the care society” at the LASA 2024 Congress “Reaction and Resistance: Imagining possible futures in the Americas” (June 12 – 15, 2024, Bogota – Colombia). You can consult … Read more
The III Workshop RESCUPAN – The social reorganization of care in Pandemic: Welfare, Community and Gender, was held on May 30-31, 2024 at the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Donostia, Euskal Herria. Project members from the teams of the Universitat de Barcelona, the Universitat de les Illes Balears, the Universitat de València and … Read more
The third RESCUPAN Workshop will take place on May 30 and 31. This time it will be held at the Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Anthropology of the UPV/EHU. We will have a round table on “Experiences and proposals for transformation and subversion of care”, with the participation of a worker of the care cooperative … Read more
On April 21 took place a staging of a fiction that summarizes so many daily stories of dreams, hopes, life, dignity and livelihood. It is in this space in which different life stories of migrant women who have arrived in the Balearic Islands are intertwined that the theatrical piece “23 Kg. Stories of women who … Read more
Continuing our February publication on the feminist strike, we share the recording of the round table on the subject, which took place in Kulturarteko Plaza Feminista, on March 16. You can listen to the podcast in Basque with Spanish subtitles here. Host and scriptwriter: Eli Pagola Guests: Tania Siriany (feminist and anti-racist activist from Gasteiz), … Read more
On March 31, a new report was published that collects the study on residential exclusion and gender violence in the Balearic Islands, carried out by the Social Observatory of the Balearic Islands of the University of the Balearic Islands (OSIB-UIB) and the Institute for Social Reinsertion Foundation (IRAS). This research, which has been funded by … Read more