Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaRepresentations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential Changes
In the present article, I ask about the principal representations of infant caregiving as a problem of public policy present in official documents and in the current rhetoric of Ecuadorian state functionaries. I use a deliberative focus for the analysis of public policies and argue that these repres...
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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador
2014
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| description | In the present article, I ask about the principal representations of infant caregiving as a problem of public policy present in official documents and in the current rhetoric of Ecuadorian state functionaries. I use a deliberative focus for the analysis of public policies and argue that these representations are characterized by the ambivalence between visions that consider women as principally responsible for caregiving and that position the state and the market as protagonists as well. Elements are joined that could favor changes in traditional representations, as the inclusion in discourse of co-responsibility and in practice of the professionalization of caregiving. This article makes evident that infant caregiving is a complex category and in political dispute, whose forms of representation have the capacity of producing specific subjectivities that are marked by aspects such as gender and class. |
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| spelling | iconos-article-14312024-04-23T17:09:10Z Representations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential Changes Representaciones del cuidado infantil como problema de políticas públicas en el Estado ecuatoriano: ambivalencias y cambios potenciales Villamediana, Virginia Infant caregiving Public policies Discourse analysis Gender State Ecuador. Cuidado infantil Políticas públicas Análisis del Discurso Género Estado Ecuador In the present article, I ask about the principal representations of infant caregiving as a problem of public policy present in official documents and in the current rhetoric of Ecuadorian state functionaries. I use a deliberative focus for the analysis of public policies and argue that these representations are characterized by the ambivalence between visions that consider women as principally responsible for caregiving and that position the state and the market as protagonists as well. Elements are joined that could favor changes in traditional representations, as the inclusion in discourse of co-responsibility and in practice of the professionalization of caregiving. This article makes evident that infant caregiving is a complex category and in political dispute, whose forms of representation have the capacity of producing specific subjectivities that are marked by aspects such as gender and class. En el presente artículo indago respecto a cuáles son las principales representaciones del cuidado infantil como problema de políticas públicas presentes en documentos oficiales y en la retórica de funcionarios del Estado ecuatoriano actualmente. Utilizo el enfoque deliberativo para el análisis de políticas públicas y argumento que estas representaciones se caracterizan por la ambivalencia entre visiones que consideran a las mujeres como principales responsables del cuidado y las que colocan al Estado y al mercado también como protagonistas. A ello se unen elementos que pueden favorecer cambios en las representaciones tradicionales como la inclusión, en el discurso, de la corresponsabilidad y, en la práctica, de la profesionalización del cuidado. Este artículo evidencia que el cuidado infantil es una categoría compleja y en disputa política, cuyas formas de representación tienen la capacidad de producir determinadas subjetividades marcadas por aspectos como el género y la clase. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador 2014-09-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/1431 10.17141/iconos.50.2014.1431 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; Núm. 50 (2014): Dossier: Nuevas aproximaciones a la organización social del cuidado. Debates latinoamericanos; 97-110 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; n. 50 (2014): Dossier: Nuevas aproximaciones a la organización social del cuidado. Debates latinoamericanos; 97-110 Íconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales; No. 50 (2014): Dossier: New approaches to the social organization of care. Latin American debates; 97-110 1390-8065 1390-1249 spa https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/1431/1216 Derechos de autor 2014 Virginia Villamediana https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/deed.es_ES |
| spellingShingle | Villamediana, Virginia Representations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential Changes |
| title | Representations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential Changes |
| title_full | Representations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential Changes |
| title_fullStr | Representations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential Changes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Representations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential Changes |
| title_short | Representations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential Changes |
| title_sort | representations of infant caregiving as a problem of public policy in the ecuadorian state: ambivalences and potential changes |
| url | https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/1431 |