Reinvention of daily life in women from cúcuta in times of covid-19

Abstract

An approach is made to everyday life, in relation to practices, relationships and subjectivities, taking into account the theoretical perspectives of Agnes Heller and Norbert Elías. The proposed objective is to investigate the transformations of the daily life of the woman living in Cúcuta during the period of isolation by the COVID-19. Grounded theory was applied as the analytical method of a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach in which 15 women participated. The results, based on in-depth interviews, indicate four general categories and a central one, which account for the construction of a new daily life, where awareness-for-itself emerges as an ethical and political act to face the economic situation, transfer between the need and the fear of contagion in parallel spaces and times between work, care, study and recreation; heterogeneous forms of relating and actions are given in virtuality with the family and other contexts; they become new subjectivities that hierarchically reveal the relevance of self-worth, family, life, the presence of the other, faith and the environment.