Social organizations and pandemic: impacts and socio-educational and community actions in popular territories of Buenos Aires

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that the biological aspects of human life and the political and economic determinants are profoundly and tightly interwoven. The crisis has deepened the social inequalities, affecting multiple dimensions. In what ways has this pandemic affected the institutions and social organizations within the popular neighborhoods? And what was its impact on the educational actions that these organizations have developed? The systematization of the work produced has shown not only that this crisis has had substantial impacts on the diverse spheres of the daily organizational and community work and on the right to education, but it has also revealed the multiple actions and efforts made by people from the territories in order to face the emergent issues. It is our intent to contribute to making those aspects visible as part of our necessary diagnoses towards the uncertain and challenging scenarios that are unfolding in order to continue projecting thoughts and interventions from the perspective of the popular education and the critical sociocultural community development.