Abstract

OSUNA, María Florencia. People in the year 2000: Players, speeches, and policies related to childhood during the dictatorship (1976-1980). Sociohistórica [online]. 2017, n.40, pp.00-00. ISSN 1852-1606.

The purpose of this article is to reconstruct a varied set of initiatives, representations, and networks of players related to childhood during the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1980). On the one hand, we analyze the imaginary connection between children, the future, and technology in those years, which was shared by very mixed players. In this regard, for the dictatorship, childhood represented a potential field of uncertainties which needed to be controlled and monitored. On the other hand, this paper studies the commemoration of the "International Year of the Child" in 1979, accounting for the international influence of the Catholic Church and UNICEF to carry out the event. It also shows the wide variety of players and proposals for childhood in the public sphere during the most repressive years of State terrorism

Keywords : Childhood; Last dictatorship; UNICEF; Catholic; Secretary of Children and Families.