[Childhood and the pandemic: Chronicle of an absence foretold]. / Infancia y pandemia: Crónica de una ausencia anunciada.
Salud Colect
; 17: e3303, 2021 04 16.
Article
in Spanish
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1204448
ABSTRACT
As the COVID-19 pandemic has made visible, childhood is the virus's proverbial south a world where care is not a value chosen from a place of desire, and where children's voices are silenced at the hands of an ancestral epistemic injustice. Thus, the transformation that human societies are undergoing due to COVID-19 has significantly impacted the rights of children, both at the micro and the macro levels. In Spain - a country that has been particularly hard-hit by the pandemic - we find that both infancy (especially through obstetric violence) and childhood at all its stages fall victim to an adultcentric paradigm based on control and epistemic injustice. This essay analyzes and discusses some of the negative consequences observed in this country related to the care for and the confinement of minors and their families - which has occurred as a result of the pandemic - and considers that the crisis triggered by COVID-19 may be an opportunity to shed light on situations of ancestral injustice towards children.
RESUMEN
La infancia es el sur del virus, como ha visibilizado la pandemia de COVID-19 un mundo donde el cuidado no es un valor escogido desde el deseo, y donde la voz infantil es silenciada en virtud de una injusticia epistémica ancestral. Así, la transformación que las sociedades humanas están experimentando debido a la COVID-19 ha impactado significativamente en los derechos de la infancia, a niveles micro y macro. En España, como país especialmente golpeado por la pandemia, encontramos que tanto la primera infancia (a través especialmente de la violencia obstétrica) como ella misma en todas sus fases, están siendo víctimas de un paradigma adultocéntrico de control e injusticia epistémica basales. En este ensayo se analiza y discute algunas de las consecuencias negativas observadas en este país con relación al cuidado y el confinamiento de menores y sus familias, acaecidas a raíz de la pandemia, considerando que la crisis desencadenada por la COVID-19 puede ser una oportunidad para visibilizar situaciones de injusticia ancestral para con la niñez.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Child Welfare
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Quarantine
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Child Health
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Physical Distancing
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COVID-19
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Human Rights
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
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Infant
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Infant, Newborn
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Salud Colect
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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