Abstract

GRINBERG, Silvia Mariela  and  VERON, Eduardo Francisco. COVID-19 and digitization in contexts of urban poverty. Bitácora Urbano Territorial [online]. 2022, vol.32, n.2, pp.89-100.  Epub July 06, 2022. ISSN 0124-7913.  https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v32n2.99794.

The COVID-19 pandemic produced important changes in the lifestyles of the population, including the ways in which the daily reproduction of families takes place. In this article we describe the changes that the pandemic produced in the development of subsistence strategies of the population that lives in contexts of extreme urban poverty in the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires. Through long-term field work and digital data collection, we investigate how new circuits were developed in the most impoverished neighborhoods for the development of subsistence activities in the digital world, and how urban life in these spaces moved to the space of virtuality. In this article, through Verónica, a resident of one of those neighborhoods, we delve into the dynamics of neighborhood life and its daily reproduction, associated with the collection and recycling of waste, consumption and sale at popular fairs. Then we take care of the digital development of these processes in 2020, as the quarantine dismantled face-to-face dynamics.

Keywords : reproduction; recycling; digitization; urban poverty.

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