Health, care, and the economy in Argentina. Moral values regimes in Pandemic

MARIANO D. PERELMAN

Helsinki

Congreso; SIEF 2021 15th Congress; 2021

International Society for Ethnology and Folklore

From approaching Pandemic from the analytical lens of the ways in whichpeople demand and express ways of living (and dying) -with special attention tothe ways in which they conceive and experience isolation policies, in this presentation I aminteresting on showing the multiple forms that ?pandemic? acquired inArgentina. The pandemic put life forms at stake and has generated processes ofuncertainty. Advancing along this path, investigating the way in which moralregimes are stressed, allows us to see the multiplicity of ways ofunderstanding what is happening today. My argument is that although Pandemic isglobal, it is also eminentlylocal. The Pandemic is a social product in the way it is managed, as it hasbeen built into a public problem, and in its effects. It is from here that wecan understand the existence of these multiplicities of ways of livingisolation as well as the solutions that are wielded in such a situation. Theway in which people act and generate social forms of seeing, demanding, livingthe quarantine and the pandemic depends on moral frameworks that are disputedand that are publicly expressed. I will center on three of these forms oflegitimation: Health, economy and care. From here I will show the way peoplemobilized moral and public arguments, the way care, economy and health arespace of dispute and forms of constructing and demining for a way of living. @font-face{font-family:"Cambria Math";panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:roman;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}@font-face{font-family:"Minion Pro";panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;mso-font-alt:Cambria;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:roman;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:-536870225 1342234747 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-unhide:no;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";margin:0cm;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}.MsoChpDefault{mso-style-type:export-only;mso-default-props:yes;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}div.WordSection1{page:WordSection1;}