The production of community care from the popular economy. Reflections on spatialities and forms of mobility based on an analysis of the practices of women from popular sectors during the pandemic.

Abstract

In this article we share a series of reflections on the links between the production of community care from popular economy organizations and spatial dynamics, specifically considering the ways in which these relationships were put into play in the context of the pandemic. From a qualitative exploration developed during the years 2020 and 2021 we have sought to shed light on two axes of analysis: On the one hand, we inquired into the production of spatialities as part of the conditions of possibility for the development of socio-community work, considering the spatial-temporal articulation and the materialities involved. On the other hand, we seek to apprehend these cares from the movements that make them possible, considering the displacements and circulations of the people who carry out socio-community work. Recovering a series of contributions developed from feminist geography and the mobility paradigm, we will argue that the development of socio-community work practices implies intervening on the organization and uses of space, developing a complex spatio-temporal organization that blurs the boundaries between what is defined as "community" and "family" care and between "collective" care and "self-care".