âLife canât just be working all week and then going to the supermarket on Saturday. It just canât be. That life is not human.â So said paleoanthropologist Juan Luis Arsuaga in a widely shared interview with EL PAÃS last year. At the time, the Spanish government had declared a nationwide home lockdown in a bid to control the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly one year on, Alberto del Campo, a doctor in anthropology, has taken a closer look at this idea. In his new book
La Vida Cotidiana en Tiempos de la Covid (or, Daily Life in Times of Covid), Del Campo pulls together a dozen studies that investigate how the health crisis has impacted daily life, turning what was once simple and routine into highly prized activities. The newly unemployed who dream of going back to work, the working mothers overwhelmed without their support network, the youngsters who have had to change their sex lives, the people who want to wake up without being afraid of contagion â these ar
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Every Friday, MarÃa Gallardo and Francesc Turmo pick up their three children from school together. They first head to one building to wait for 3-year-old Martà and 5-year-old Mia, who run to their parents with painted faces as soon as they spot them.
Their third child, 7-year-old Alex, won t get out of his Capoeira class for another couple of hours, so the family heads to a nearby Barcelona plaza, where dozens of children have thrown their backpacks aside and swarm the playground. A small group of children plays a game of soccer.
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Ció Patxot, researcher at the UB School of Economics and member of the Barcelona Economic Analysis Team (BEAT), is participating as principal researcher at the European project TRANSHIST based on the interaction between the welfare state and the family throughout history. Developed by the International Centre of Aging and financed by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union, it is an initiative of the Interreg V-A Cooperation Programme, Spain-Portugal (POCTEP), 2014-2020.
Other researchers are collaborating in the project: Berkeley University Graduate School professor Ronald Lee, the Autonomous University of Barcelona associated professor Guadalupe Souto, University of Hawaii professor Andrew Mason, and Pedro Luís de Oliveira Martins Pita Barros, professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Lisboa.
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