“No hay como la palabra escrita para defender lo que uno hace”: Usos de la producción documental en la gestión cotidiana de la niñez en el municipio de La Matanza
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Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
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Este escrito indaga en torno a las variadas dinámicas que se despliegan alrededor de los documentos producidos diariamente por agentes estales, en dispositivos de intervención sobre niños “con derechos vulnerados”, de un municipio del conurbano bonaerense. Cotidianamente se escriben, entre otros, diversos diagnósticos, variadas actas y múltiples informes. En buena parte de la literatura de las ciencias sociales suele interpretarse estos documentos como tecnologías para hacer legibles y cartografiables a las poblaciones, en el marco de formas contemporáneas de gobierno. Sin embargo, consideramos que interpretarlas exclusivamente como tecnologías de control social puede llevar a sobresimplificar las mediaciones que operan en los procesos cotidianos de gestión estatal de la niñez. Así, al focalizar en la dimensión más interaccional de la política de niñez, la producción documental también da cuenta de prácticas y sentidos de los agentes que operan en los márgenes del Estado, en la intersección entre los imperativos morales del enfoque de derechos y las prácticas de intervención cotidianas en contextos de desigualdad social. El propósito del siguiente artículo es analizar, desde el registro etnográfico, los múltiples usos no formalizados ni visibilizados de los documentos, entendiéndolos como una singular productividad, que se construye diariamente en ámbitos de gestión estatal de la niñez.
This paper explores the various dynamics that unfold around the documents produced daily by state agents, amid interventional devices, over children “with violated rights” in a township in the suburban area of Buenos Aires. Various records, several diagnoses and multiple reports are routinely written, among others. These documents can be interpreted as technologies to make children and their families legible and mappable, in the context of contemporary forms on the government of populations. However, we believe the exclusive focus on these technologies of social control can lead to oversimplifying the mediations which take place in the daily processes of childhood management operated by the state. In focusing on the interactional dimension of the policy on children, we can glimpse how the document production also reveals practices and meanings of state agents operating at the margins of the state, at the intersection between the moral imperatives of human rights focus and the everyday intervention practices in contexts of social inequality. The purpose of this article is to analyze, from an ethnographic perspective, the multiple –neither formalized nor visible– uses of the documents, understanding them as a unique productivity, which is built up daily in state branches intended for children management.
Fil: Barna, Agustín. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina.
This paper explores the various dynamics that unfold around the documents produced daily by state agents, amid interventional devices, over children “with violated rights” in a township in the suburban area of Buenos Aires. Various records, several diagnoses and multiple reports are routinely written, among others. These documents can be interpreted as technologies to make children and their families legible and mappable, in the context of contemporary forms on the government of populations. However, we believe the exclusive focus on these technologies of social control can lead to oversimplifying the mediations which take place in the daily processes of childhood management operated by the state. In focusing on the interactional dimension of the policy on children, we can glimpse how the document production also reveals practices and meanings of state agents operating at the margins of the state, at the intersection between the moral imperatives of human rights focus and the everyday intervention practices in contexts of social inequality. The purpose of this article is to analyze, from an ethnographic perspective, the multiple –neither formalized nor visible– uses of the documents, understanding them as a unique productivity, which is built up daily in state branches intended for children management.
Fil: Barna, Agustín. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina.
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Buenos Aires, La Matanza, Argentina, Derechos del niño, Gestión, Estado, Desigualdad social, Producción documental