Community care in times of pandemic

Social production of habitat and sustainability of life in Córdoba (Argentina)

Abstract

This paper analyzes the way in which spaces of community care operate in relegated neighborhoods of the city of Cordoba, Argentina, by considering the strategies of sustainability of life that are deployed in the processes of social production of habitat. In a context of increasing precariousness of life, exacerbated by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it proposes that community care spaces express a know-how that is transmitted generationally and is directly linked to the inhabited and lived territory. Based on a qualitative field work with people who work in community soup kitchens during 2021 and 2022, this paper reflects on how community organization generates the necessary conditions to create a more dignified “habitability”.