Abstract

VALDENEGRO, Boris  and  CALDERON-FLANDEZ, Claudia. Otherness, Children and Delinquency: Discursive analysis of social programs for children in Chile. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2016, vol.14, n.2, pp.1191-1204. ISSN 1692-715X.  https://doi.org/10.11600/1692715x.14221070714.

This article aims to explore the process in which the otherness of childhoods is constructed by social practitioners through considering the tensions between representations of childhood and intervention practices. Semi-structured interviews were con ducted with four professionals that work in child justice programs. As a result, a textual corpus was produced and a discourse analysis was carried out on this corpus. The descriptive results demonstrate the tension between two polarities: permeable subject vs. hard subject, and self-updating subject vs. lacking subject. This evidences the complexity of shifting from a socio cultural and judicial minor/ guaranteeism point of view in socio-cultural and legal aspects. The study also highlights the tension in the exercise of deconstruction that is carried out by the practitioners. These practitioners finally develop new processes of naturalization that replicate the action of essentializing the other during the intervention.

Keywords : Otherness; delinquency; childhood; social intervention.

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