Comprehensive at stake. Rationalities and technologies government of childhood in the promotion and protection of girls’, boys’ and adolescents’ rights.

Authors

  • Silvina Laura Fernández Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales - Universidad Nacional de Rosario.

Keywords:

Children’s Rights, Rights Protection, Horizontal state comprehensiveness, Vertical state comprehensiveness, Community-organized territorial comprehensiveness

Abstract

This article reconstructs the government discursive formations, rationalities and technologies under dispute which attempted to capture the International Convention of Children’s Rights in Argentina - “Convención Internacional sobre los Derechos del Niño en la Argentina (CIDN)”. The categories horizontal state comprehensiveness, vertical state comprehensiveness and community-organized territorial comprehensiveness give an account of the controversies, resistances and diversities of the positions which shaped the proposed framework to turn the Convention into public policies in the country. These categories show the power relations and the influence of the neoliberal aspect of the art of government in the guiding criteria of the “comprehensive protection”. The reprimarization of social protection, the movement of the provision of institutionalized care services towards the assistance of vulnerable families and the encouragement to solve the problems of those involved who are not willing to solve them, are a predominant feature in contemporary times. The surveyed arguments showed that it is not a simple question of verifying how far the Convention reaches, or the transition of the paradigms widely disseminated. It is a question of recognizing the way the positioning of new technologies of infancy, such as the measures of rights’s
protection, produces effects in the creation of statements registered in the logic of post-social reproduction.

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Published

2017-03-22

How to Cite

Fernández, S. L. (2017). Comprehensive at stake. Rationalities and technologies government of childhood in the promotion and protection of girls’, boys’ and adolescents’ rights. Revista Pilquen. Sección Ciencias Sociales, 17(2). Retrieved from https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/Sociales/article/view/1482