Abstract

CAZORLA-BECERRA, Ketty  and  GAMBOA-MORALES, Dahiana. Participatory mapping of informal female caregivers: dispute of places and times in the practice of caring in Chile. Prospectiva [online]. 2023, n.36, e20612614.  Epub May 15, 2023. ISSN 0122-1213.  https://doi.org/10.25100/prts.v0i36.12614.

The crisis of care that was accentuated by the pandemic experience by COVID-19 has highlighted how women informal caregivers of dependent people assume, with their bodies a lack of social co-responsibility that more fairly distributes the care work that remains subject to economic, social, and cultural devaluation. In this framework, our objective will be to contribute to understanding how the social relations that protect or violate the practice of informal care are being deployed territorially. For this purpose, the research is based on a methodology of the interpretative profile, qualitative method, and the realization of participatory cartography, considering the information produced from the perspective of narrative analysis. This procedure was applied to a sample of 25 caregivers belonging to six commune sectors in Valparaíso, Chile. The results show that the informal caregiver of dependent people participates in the territory in disputes of relations with the public, the private, and the citizen, particularly in the dimensions of place and time, facing constant dismovilities and de-chronizations that hinder the exercise of care as an enforceable right to the current social organization.

Keywords : Female caregivers; Participatory Mapping; Dependence; Women.

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