Abstract
This article seeks to explore the bodies and emotions in the care work of women who carry out the work of protecting children who are separated from their families because they are under conditions of vulnerability. The experiences and their framework are recovered in the analysis of interviews with working women of the public administration of the city of Santiago de Chile, from which it is revealed that caring enters into a performative dialectical game of feeling through the bodies. ; in them is located a malaise of frustration/ ambivalence/ mandate that nest pain, rage, anger, grief, joy; melancholy, love and hope. In this fabric, the textures of the body/emotion are woven together, modified and understood. The practices of caring are articulated and disarticulated in tension seeking to untie the instituted of normalized societies that, sustained by capitalism as a regulation of sensations, threatens a torn being that turns into violence, abandonment, and poverty, conditions that bodies carry. What is inscribed is the support of protective care as both discomfort and unbearably of care and its acceptance as naturalized resistance.