Year: 2021
Type: article
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,
Source: ARQ
Language: Spanish
Topic: Latin American Urban Studies
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Awards: G2002165904, G5059073849
OpenAlex ID: W4205189979