Solidarity Networks in COVID-19: Emotional Communities, Grassroots Activism and Mutual Aid

The economic crisis derived from social distancing measures and the confinements decreed in many countries has increased racial, gender and economic inequalities and has had a strong impact on chronic diseases, domestic abuse and gender violence. This is the starting point of a project that will analyze the appearance, in Spain and Latin America, of new forms of community solidarity to face these problems, highlighting the role that grassroots activism and emotional communities have played in the formation of those mutual aid networks. Special attention will be paid to initiatives aimed at vulnerable groups (the elderly, children, the homeless, residents of favelas) and the knowledge acquired will be transferred to various media (research articles, books,open access , exhibitions, documents) in order to provide useful information to political-health authorities and other social agents.