Crisis y espacialidad de los cuidados en pandemia: vivienda y barrio en Santiago de Chile

Abstract

The material conditions of the city offer evidence of socio-territorial segregation. When sanitary measures to control the spread of COVID-19 were applied, those conditions made the extent of segregation in Santiago evident. Thus, the city, neighborhood, and housing scales open possible points of analysis to better understand the care crisis at the territorial level, where segregation and mutual support have been its main characteristics.M ore than a year after the beginning of the pandemic in Chile, there is a consensus that its multiple dimensions, both social and urban, go beyond strictly epidemiological and sanitary variables. Among others, these include the importance of social relationships of care and the spaces in which they materialize. On the one hand we observe an exacerbation in the communication towards self-care and the individualization of different sanitary control measures. However, there is evidence of a collective scale and a socio-territorial geography of reciprocity, in which different forms of local social support has configured a new perspective in building communities and their neighborhood environment with important distinctions in gender.Neighborhoods and housing experience new uses, perceptions, and practices. Although these occur in a context that amplifies the traditional socio-spatial inequalities that existed before the pandemic, they also exhibit particularities that are specific to their location in the city (in relation to furnishing, accessibility, and identity). These acquire another meaning and importance within the context of the pandemic,

Elderly Walking Access to Street Markets in Chile: An Asset for Food Security in an Unequal Country

“…The presence of street markets in Chile does not respond to clearly established rules, since each municipality has its own ordinances that are more focused on regulating the use of the public space occupied by the markets, rather than planning or regulating their locations [83]. However, social segregation affects the different commercial spaces in Chile; not only low-income groups use street markets more, whereas high-income people tend to prefer supermarkets [84], but ferias are more likely to be found in segregated poor areas [85]. This element is interesting in at least two senses.…”