Care work, bodily indiscretions and vulnerability. Contributions from an anti-species perspective within the framework of a systemic environmental crisis.

Abstract

The link between the invisibility of care work as an activity that guarantees human survival and inherent vulnerability to our animality is analyzed. The need to reframe care work from an environmental perspective is discussed within the framework of a growing public perception of systemic crisis in the relationship of our species with the environment that enables it. These analytical dimensions are contextualized with the completion of the demographic transition, occurring in a large part of the world and also in Latin America, accelerating in these first decades of the 21st century, resulting in unprecedented population growth and resulting in an exponential increase in the demand for care while, at the same time, the feminized caregiver population decreases, causing a systemic deficit that must be addressed politically.