This book is the result of an enormous collaborative effort across the international project Who cares? Rebuilding care in a post-pandemic world. This project, which arises from the call Recovering, Renewal and Resilience in a post-pandemic World (rrr) of the Transatlantic platform (t-ap), includes six countries and has allowed us to carry out the research presented in this book. Team members from four of the six countries participate in this book (Brazil, Colombia, France and USA). The research reported in these chapters is financed by the national partners of this international project, which we want to recognize: in Brazil, the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (fapesp), Grant 2021/07.888–3; the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Grant No. 421754/2021-4; and the Arymax Foundation; in Colombia, the Fondo Nacional Financiamiento para la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación, Francisco José de Caldas, Minciencias; in France, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (anr); and, in USA, National Science Foundation (nsf) under Grant no. 2215780.
We also want to acknowledge the contribution of the external academic peer reviewers of each of the chapters, as follows: Bila Sorj, Lorena Poblete, Marcelo Medeiros, Maria Elena Valenzuela, Mignon Duffy, Miriam Wlosko, Monique Meron, Natacha Borgeaud Garciandia, and Rafael Grohmann. We thank all of them for providing concepts, which allowed us to substantially improve the manuscript.
Likewise, we would like to thank the following people for the professional work of data processing, the translation into English and the style correction of most of the texts: Paulo Henrique da Silva (data processing) in Chapter 2; Paulo Scarpa (translation into English) in Chapters 2 and 6; Sofía Rodríguez Nieto (data processing), María Camila Roldán Bernal (translation into English) and Cherie Pyne (style correction), in Chapter 4; Bárbara Castro (data processing), Kirsten Manson and Enterprise Essential Plus (style correction), in the Chapter 10; Dominic Higgins (style correction), in Chapters 8 and 9; Gabriela Alkmin (translation into English) in Chapter 11. We thank Jill Herring for her extensive copy-editing of all the chapters from Brazil and France: 2, 3, 6, 11 and 12 from Brazil, and 5, 7 and 10 from France.
Finally, we have a special thanks to: Cresppa/cnrs in Paris and especially to Helena Hirata and Aurélie Damamme for coordinating the event that led to the preparation and initial discussion of all the chapters found here; the universities to which we belong and to the entities and people that provided support to fund management and gave us the working conditions for the development