Reflexiones teóricas

The health crisis unleashed by COVID-19 has dramatically revealed that vulnerability and interdependence are the basis of human relationships; highlighting that care -and the effects that this has on who provides it and who receives it- does not depend only on a person, but on the networks in which they participate. Confinement has made it … Read more

The social isolation measures ordered by the governments as a way of dealing with the health issue have disrupted the usual ways of organizing work and have revealed all the pressure that exists on women’s work and the enormous precariousness of multiple situations. At a general level, although both women and men are facing greater … Read more

The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting and exacerbating already existing gender and economic inequalities caused by a patriarchal and capitalist system. For this reason, an analytical framework is essential that allows progress in analyzes that take into account those factors that are working synergistically: the care crisis with the health crisis and poverty. In this sense, … Read more

In this framework, the health crisis caused by the expansion of COVID-19 highlights the consequences that the commodification of the public sphere has on life; the market as the regulatory axis of human relations; and showing the relevance and weakness of the social organization of care. In three months, COVID-19 put on the agenda what … Read more

The studies locate the Spanish welfare model in the Mediterranean model, recognized for its universalism (pensions, health and education) but also for its high component of welfare, for a weak network of social services and for a high degree of familism (especially in the field of social services). The importance of the role of the … Read more

In recent decades, a broad line of research has been developed on the social (re)organization of care in a context of profound sociodemographic transformations, global capitalism and the welfare state. Among these, the following stand out: (1) demographic transformations; (2) the impact of the economic and financial crisis on the supply of public services and … Read more

The relevance and opportunity of the project, given the profound social transformations of recent years, the impacts of the economic crisis of the past decade and the consequences of covid-19, is notorious. First, the project raises the consequences of the social reorganization of care from an integrated perspective that complements epidemiological knowledge with knowledge developed … Read more