On the basis of an ethnographic-oriented research, where we retrieved stories from young people born and raised in extremely poor urban contexts of Region Metropolitana of Buenos Aires, Argentina, we reflect on the development of subjectivity in the poorest towns from the global south side. We get deeper into the multiple existing connections, understanding that mapping such connections is not about copying but about crossing the diverse lines of that network. We propose a discussion on the research results concerning the complexity of being born and living in these places, ensuring an expression of some traces acquired by childhood in the skirts of our urbanity.
Keywords:
childhood, subjectivity, urban poverty
Author Biographies
Mercedes Machado, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
Licenciada en Ciencias de la Educación, Becaria doctoral CONICET/ CEDESI-EH, Universidad Nacional de San Martín/ Buenos Aires, Argentina/ mercedeslmachado@gmail.com.
Luciano Martín Mantiñán, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
Licenciado en Antropología Social y Cultural, Becario doctoral CONICET/CEDESI-EH, Universidad Nacional de San Martín/ Buenos Aires, Argentina/ lmmantinan@yahoo.com.ar
Silvia Grinberg, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
Doctora en Educación, Investigadora CONICET/CEDESI-EH, Universidad Nacional de San Martín/ Buenos Aires, Argentina/ grinberg.silvia@gmail.com
Machado, M., Martín Mantiñán, L., & Grinberg, S. (2019). Childhood stories: to be born and live in global south slums cartography and evolution of subjectivity in contemporary societies. Última Década, 24(45), pp. 140–157. Retrieved from https://ultimadecada.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/54183
