Abstract
The book entitled “Poverty, emotions and state interventions. Before and after the COVID-19 pandemic” written by Angélica De Sena, Andrea Dettano and Rebeca Cena, is divided into seven chapters and an introduction in which some definitions of social policies are recovered in connection with the challenges they present for the 21st century. Likewise, it is specifically located in Latin America in a context of increasing poverty, privatization of services, the massive incorporation of women into the labor market, the opening of the economy and the internalization of employment. This modifies the ways in which social policies are “constructed”.
Who is the subject of social policies? At what point in life is there intervention? How does social policy intervene? These are some of the questions that the authors address when constructing an “algorithm” that allows us to understand the meaning of social policies and the challenges they present in the 21st century both for studying, researching and implementing them. The "programming language" they propose is based on the real experiences of the people who use it.