Filial love as collective action and trust

Abstract

We live in societies normalized around immediate enjoyment through consumption, which constitutes a political economy of morality permeated by the trivialization of good, by the logic of waste and the politics of perversion. This structure, however, is denied every day by interstitial practices, among which the filial love is one of the most relevant. This article aims to synthesize the results of a digital ethnography carried out in Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina in relation to the links between filial love as collective action and the bonds of trust generated by these practices. Filial love as an interstitial practice produces interactions of reciprocity and trust a) between the actors and people involved, b) with other collective practices and c) with "institutional spaces". From the practices of filial love, trust emerges, producing a set of feeling practices that move dialectically between pain and encounter thus qualifying the emotional investments that people experience. The present work aims to show how filial love as collective action denies the regime of truth of the current political economy of morality, emphasizing the place of trust in such collective practices. To this end, the work is structured according to the following explanatory strategy: a) what is understood by interstitial practices and filial love is synthesized, b) the six selected experiences are discussed and c) a brief "conclusion" is proposed.