Open AccessEl cuidado de la vida en común en tiempos de pandemia y pospandemia
Author(s) -
Consuelo de la Torre del Pozo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista de humanidades de valparaíso
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0719-4242
pISSN - 0719-4234
DOI - 10.22370/rhv2021iss17pp209-229
Subject(s) - compromise , hegemony , humanities , democracy , sociology , covid-19 , citizenship , state (computer science) , political science , turning point , welfare economics , philosophy , law , politics , social science , medicine , aesthetics , economics , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , algorithm , computer science , period (music)
In this essay, I reflect on the way that the COVID-19 pandemic deepens the care crisis and the radical, democratic transformation this turning point demands. Beginning with an assessment of the status of the free-riding on care (Nancy Fraser) and the gender division of labor, I continue with an analysis of the hegemonic justifications that, as Wendy Brown has shown, underpin such unbalance. I conclude with some remarks on the imminent challenge to advance towards a model of state, society and citizenship capable of securing a sustained and co-responsible social compromise with the care of the community.