Abstract

GASCON, Felip  and  GODOY, Lorena. Presence and indifference. Towards a visual statute of childhood. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2015, vol.13, n.2, pp.645-656. ISSN 1692-715X.  https://doi.org/10.11600/1692715x.1326093014.

This paper aims to deconstruct the meaning that dominant visuality gives childhood. It begins with a critical and articulated reading of education and communication to uncover childhood-related practices that the visuality of adults gives children. There is evidence that supports the finding that the "image-file" for children can be read as a metaphor for indifference and as a device that is submissive to a visual regime, ultimately dramatizing hetero-normality. For this reason the authors propose the need to design a visual and expressive statute of childhood that, based on public policy, re-identifies the need to increase opportunities for autonomy in the production of the subjectivities, presence and historicity of children as an affirmation of the triple human reality: individual, society and humanity.

Keywords : infancy; childhood; differences; imaginary; media; rights of the child; collective memory; edu-communication; colonialism; visuality; audiovisual statute.

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