Bodily Infrastructures of Care

This article introduces the concept of acuerpamiento to unveil bodily infrastructures of care and healing. I interrogate the relationships between bodies, space, emotions, and infrastructures from an affective and a communitarian feminist approach, by exploring the lives of street vendors and capturing the nuanced ways infrastructures of care can shape and mitigate the inequities and challenges that characterize women’s labour. I seek to weave a contribution to bodies as the infrastructures of care that sustain and support everyday life. In this sense, the concept of acuerpamiento can help us to understand practices, emotions, and decisions of individual bodies in a collective way. I reflect specifically on a group of women street vendors who founded a theatre company in the Historical Centre of San Salvador, El Salvador.