The caregivers' strike: a tale of violence and care in the entrails of San Salvador

This essay introduces the concepts of cuerpo-territorio and acuerpamiento to unveil bodily infrastructures of care. Starting from concepts such as urban violence, state violence, and police violence, I examine how caring socio-spatial practices and bodies affect and transform urban contexts of extreme and chronic violence. I seek to weave a contribution to bodies as infrastructures of care by conceptualizing the body as a territory and reflecting the territory in the body, it is possible to think of a more visceral, embodied, and affective understanding of caring in violent contexts, as well as unveil invisible practices and networks of care. I specifically reflect on a group of women inhabiting the surroundings of El Penalito, an old cinema located within the limits of the Historic Center of San Salvador, which became a temporary jail.