This lecture will present the results and initial analysis of a nation-wide research project on child-protection, focusing on the policies and institutional practices in response to violence against children and its interactions with gender-based violence in domestic contexts. The development of a malleable, all-comprehensive and morally charged category of “violence against children” could result in the invisibilization of its significant relationship to gender-based violence. We will try to problematize the relationship between those categories and the phenomenon of gender and age-based violence in the contemporary Argentinean context.

Valeria Llobet is a Full Professor in the School of Humanities, Universidad de San Martín, and researcher in CONICET (National Council of Research) - both based in Argentina. Her interests are the micropolitics of childhood, childhood and gender rights and the politics of inequalities. Her current research project is entitled ‘Children, youth, and families: social transformation, care crisis and future(s) in the long-covid’. She has taught PhD and Masters courses and has organised conferences in several different countries in Latin America, the US and Europe. She has served twice as Chair of the Childhood Studies track of the Latin American Studies Association and is the current President of the RC53 Sociology of Childhood, International Sociological Association. As activist, she has been part of the National Campaign for the Legalization of Abortion and is founder member of the Network of Teachers for the Right to Abortion. Her latest publications are South American Childhoods, Studies in Childhood and Youth. Vergara, A, Nascimento, M.L. and Llobet, V. (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, and Desde la Desjudicialización a la Refundación de los Derechos (Llobet, V. and Villalta C, eds.) Teseo, Buenos Aires.

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