Abstract:
This article aims to discuss issues related to children’s encounters with social assistance, based on an excerpt from a master's research carried out in the Service for Coexistence and Strengthening of Bonds. We bet on the unique traces of the cartographic methodology for the monitoring of the daily events of the service and for the epistemic exercise of decolonization of thought. We intend, therefore, to contextualize the speeches linked to children considered a priority public of the service and objects of public policy and to reflect on the Covid-19 pandemic that opens up social inequalities. We understand that the critical look from a partial perspective enhances the deconstruction of totalizing and universal discourses about childhood. Besides, we propose listening-action as an ethical-aesthetic-political bet of a smaller listening in larger times and systems, which can brutalize the daily work in public policies.
Keywords:
Public Policy; Child; Social Psychology; Social Assistance; Covid-19