Abstract

MARENGO, M. Cecilia; ELORZA, Ana Laura  and  AVALOS, Pablo. Desigualdad e injusticia espacial en contexto de pandemia. El caso de dos barrios de vivienda social en Córdoba, Argentina. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2023, n.63, pp.133-158. ISSN 1668-8104.

In recent decades, the production of urban space in Latin America has been characterized by the intensification of socio-territorial inequalities, a process resulting from the commodification of urban development identified as spatial injustice. The article makes visible how these processes occur in a peripheral neighborhood during the period of isolation imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective is to recognize the needs and problems in public housing neighborhoods and the strategies for social reproduction developed in contexts of urban segregation and fragmentation in Córdoba (Argentina). Two housing complexes from the “Mi Casa Mi Vida” program, located on the urban fringes, are taken as a case.

The methodology is qualitative; it combined the reading and analysis of the urban location and the evolution of the environment with interviews with key informants. From the Atlas.ti software, categories and interpretation codes were built, expressed in four dimensions: health care and prevention of COVID-19; the development of daily activities in the management of satisfiers, for basic needs such as food; access to connectivity and resignifications of living, especially housing and public space. The results validate how the conditions of physical isolation, residential segregation, and the structural deficiencies of the population intensify the conditions of spatial injustice. Likewise, the significant role of the institutions located in the neighborhoods and social organizations is evident in the strategies of social reproduction and management of public policies.

Keywords : Covid19; spatial injustice; socio-territorial segregation; social housing.