“Nuestro norte son los niños”. Subjetividades políticas y colectivización del cuidado infantil en organizaciones sociales del Gran Buenos Aires

Abstract

In this article we set out to analyze the images of childhood that different sociopolitical actors put into play in popular neighborhoods of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. We refer to initiatives promoted by residents, volunteers and political activists who have come up with a collectivized proposal for the care of children. We will base our analysis on the records that come from the anthropological and ethnographic field work that we have carried out since 2001 in the north and north-west of Buenos Aires city suburbs (Gran Buenos Aires). The analysis seeks to document the ways in which the production of images regarding children and their needs takes place as the political subjectivities of those who promote these actions are generated and shaped. This process, far from being restricted to adults, involves children fully, who turn out to be active in the processes of construction of those actions that have them as their object.