Anthropology of state interventions concerning childhood, adolescence and family

Ethnography of everyday practices, a construction of analytic perspectives

  • Carla Villalta Programa de Antropología Política y Jurídica, Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET
Keywords: Political and Judicial Anthropology, Bureaucracies, Maternalization, Family making, Rights

Abstract

This article reviews some of the central and most persistent characteristics of the actions undertaken within the institutional field of the administration of childhood, adolescence, and their families, which in one way or another, have been examined by different socio-anthropological investigations carried out in our region. The article identifies how processes associated with motherhood and family building, of individuation and psychologizing, intersect with each other in these actions. In doing so, it critically reappraises the contributions in a field of study which, in recent years, has attempted to decipher and understand the most salient features of a type of intervention that combines, not without tension, assistance and repression, support and control. Antropologia das intervenções estatais na infância, na adolescência e na família.

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Author Biography

Carla Villalta, Programa de Antropología Política y Jurídica, Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET
Doctora en Antropología Social por la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Investigadora independiente del CONICET, cocoordinadora del Programa de Antropología Política y Jurídica, Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas de la UBA, y directora del Equipo de Investigación “Burocracias, parentesco, derechos e infancia”. Profesora adjunta regular de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UBA, profesora del Doctorado en Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Nacional de Lanús e integrante de su Comisión Académica. Miembro del Comité Asesor del Programa Nacional Ciencia y Justicia del CONICET.
Published
2021-05-03
How to Cite
Villalta, C. (2021). Anthropology of state interventions concerning childhood, adolescence and family. Cuadernos De antropología Social, (53), 21-37. https://doi.org/10.34096/cas.i53.10169