Knowledge forms and gendered moralities in policies of infant care in Brazil

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2022-07-05 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16533933612496

Claudia Fonseca

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Abstract

Inspired by the anthropology of social policy, this article explores the labyrinth of knowledge forms, politics and morality through which a certain programme for early childhood development (ECD) has unfolded in Brazil. By tracking the materiality of ideas – the actors who defend them, the experiments that back them, and the institutional vectors that assure them legitimacy – I weave together variegated threads from neuroscientists, BBC documentaries and Brazilian politicians to moralised motherhoods, criminal brains and, finally, a surprising appraisal on the diminished cognitive capacity of a whole population. Nurtured in the critical analyses of intensive parenting and correlated discussions on ‘chaotic concepts’, I hope to seize on the Brazilian experience to incorporate a new variable into the cost-benefit equation often used to favour ECD – that of the moral fall-out concerning visions of gender, family and class.

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巴西婴儿保育政策中的知识形态与性别道德

受社会政策人类学的启发，本文探讨了知识形式、政治和道德的迷宫，通过这些迷宫，巴西展开了某种幼儿发展计划。通过追踪思想的实质性——捍卫思想的行动者、支持思想的实验以及确保思想合法性的制度载体——我编织了各种各样的线索，从神经科学家、BBC纪录片和巴西政客到道德化的母亲、犯罪头脑，最后，对整个人群认知能力下降的惊人评价。在对强化育儿的批判性分析和对“混乱概念”的相关讨论中，我希望抓住巴西的经验，将一个新的变量纳入经常用于支持幼儿发展的成本效益方程中——即关于性别、家庭和阶级愿景的道德分歧。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.