The second edition of the International Congress of Feminist Anthropology was held from July 1-3, 2024. The RESCUPAN team researchers, Isa Nadal Amengual, Marta Luxán Serrano and Carme Vivancos-Sánchez, presented the comunication “COVID-19 y tiempos de cuidado: cambios y permanencias” (COVID-19 and times of care: changes and permanences).
In this work, the researchers investigated the articulation of the times before, during and after the pandemic based on the narratives and life stories of 29 women with caregiving responsibilities in the territories of the Basque Country, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community, carried out within the framework of the R&D project RESCUPAN (PID2020-118801RB-I00). They paid special attention to families in more critical situations, such as single-parent families, since they experienced more stress, fatigue, family overload, lack of time for self-care and, especially, difficulties to count on community support, from the social or family network that, prior to confinement, could mitigate and improve their realities. In addition, they delved into the changes that the pandemic may have brought about as a possible relevant element for the greater visibility and social recognition of care, approaching in a special way the transformations in the field of norms, values and social imaginaries in relation to care and the uses of time in pandemic and post-pandemic.
