Social Policies and Emotions: A Look from the Global South

Políticas sociales y prácticas de consumo: los y las receptoras de transferencias de ingresos del Municipio de La Matanza pre y en pandemia

“…Por medio de su hacer y componentes, asignan roles que posicionan a las personas receptoras como responsables de su propia situación de carencia de trabajo y/o de ingresos. Es decir, al organizar la distribución de cargas, beneficios y poder entre los grupos y categorías de personas, producen e inciden en sus condiciones de vida y sus modos de sentir (Adelantado et al, 1998;Danani, 2004;MacAuslan y Riemenschneider, 2011;Tonkens et al, 2013;De Sena, 2016;De Sena y Scribano, 2020;Cena y Dettano, 2022).…”

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

“…International developments (MacAuslan and Riemenschneider, 2011; Tonkens et al , 2013; Horsell, 2017; De Sena and Scribano, 2020) have found that social policies affect the ways of producing and reproducing living conditions, including cognitive-affective related dimensions. They are inserted and take place in specific contextual frameworks that affect the definition of the problem to be addressed, the population to be affected, the goods and services to be transferred, and the conditions required to make effective the ‘being part’ of the policy or program under analysis.…”

Poverty and emotions: narratives on social policies and violence against women in Greater Buenos Aires

“…For this reason, the importance of the analysis is not only of the design and implementation but also of the distances between what is narrated and experienced as a recipient of said policy. (De Sena and Scribano 2020;De Sena 2014).…”

“…In Argentina in recent decades, the increase in poverty rates has had as its counterpart, a sustained increase in the number of state interventions towards poverty of assisted people and especially women (De Sena , 2014. In other places, we have identified some attributes of said social policies implemented (De Sena and Scribano 2020;De Sena 2014, 2017, which are configuring a subject tied to some form of subsidy over the years, in a modality of immobilization of that situation, with certain resignation and in the search of new programs of attention to poverty. In this context, in 2009, the Social Income with Work Program "Argentina Trabaja" originated, with the purpose of achieving "economic and social development from organized and community work" towards the "quality of life of the most vulnerable sectors., through support for the most vulnerable communities" (Ministerial Resolution 3182/2009).…”