Pandemia por COVID-19 y los desafíos de avizorar/ocluir problemas sociales. Un análisis desde las políticas sociales como grafías

Abstract

El título que posee este escrito se vincula al contexto de la pandemia y los desafíos de avizorar y/o de ocluir problemas sociales. Este artículo ha sido elaborado con la intención de compartir un ejercicio de problematización en relación a las políticas sociales. El objetivo es analizar una serie de políticas sociales que se han implementado en el contexto de la pandemia por COVID-19 en Argentina y que serán abordadas aquí en tanto grafías. Es decir, en tanto símbolos que nos permiten tensionar algunos aspectos respecto a las sociedades donde se implementan. Se trabaja a partir del análisis documental explorando algunas intervenciones sociales que se han dado desde marzo a agosto de 2020. Se concluye que estas intervenciones estatales operan como indicios acerca de un capítulo no menor de los problemas expresión de la cuestión social. Junto con ello, que en tanto disputa de sentidos, recorte y delimitación, participan de la definición de algunos problemas incluyendo otros. The title of this writing is linked to the context of the pandemic and the challenges of envisioning and / or occluding social problems. This article has been prepared with the intention of sharing an exercise of problematization in relation to social policies. The objective of this writing is to analyze a series of social policies that have been implemented in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina and that will be addressed here as spellings. That is, as symbols that allow us to stress some aspects regarding the societies where they are implemented. It works from the documentary analysis exploring some social interventions that have taken place from March to August 2020. It is concluded that these state interventions operate as indications about a not minor chapter of the problems expressing the social question. Along with this, as a dispute of meanings, clipping and delimitation, they participate in the definition of some problems, occluding others.

About Waiting: A Reading from Social Policies and Emotions in the Context of a Pandemic

“…In 2020, the state pandemic interventions correlated with four distinctive elements that we have identified in relation to extended conditional cash transfer programs (CCTPs): They are of a massive nature (De Sena, 2011): in the Argentine case, 25 per cent of the total population has participated in the CCTP, and at the regional level, the number of people living in households that received a CCTP in 2015 was 131.8 million, which represents 20.9 per cent of the regional population (Cecchini and Atuesta, 2017). They have acquired an important monetisation and banking aspect (Macías González, 2016), either due to the CCTP or due to food policies; both modalities imply the need to adopt the banking system by large sectors of the population. They have manifested the survival (Dettano, 2020) of certain persistent problems, which increase and overlap between the new/old characteristics of the social interventions. Their structuring profile has been evidenced in contemporary societies (Cena, 2020), as one of the main tools that states have used to respond to social problems exacerbated by the crises generated by COVID-19. …”

“…Their structuring profile has been evidenced in contemporary societies (Cena, 2020), as one of the main tools that states have used to respond to social problems exacerbated by the crises generated by COVID-19.…”