Babies and Borders: Between Individuation and Materiality of the Infant Life

Author(s)

de Campos Tebet, Gabriela Guarnieri ^[1] ; Impedovo, Maria Antonietta ^[2] ; Pontes, Loani Cristina Buzo ^[3]

Affiliation

^[1] Univ Campinas UNICAMP, Sch Educ, Rua Bertrand Russell 801, BR-13083865 Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[2] Aix Marseille Univ, ADEF, 52 Ave Escadrille Normandie Niemen, F-13013 Marseille - France

^[3] Av Bento Amaral Gurgel 1390, BR-13219070 Jundiai, SP - Brazil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: HUMAN ARENAS; SEP 2021.
• Web of Science Citations: 0

Abstract

This study is included in the specific field ``baby studies{''}. We focus on borders in daycare as a dynamic space between materiality and individuation in infant life. We aim to explore how infants deal with borders in a daycare, dialoguing with the fields of Human Geography, Actor-network theory, and Cultural Psychology, considering borders as a dynamic process between materiality and individuation, and space as the sum of all our connections. We carried out fieldwork in French and Brazilian day nurseries, using the participant observation method. We discuss four types of boundaries: functional borders with a structural role, boundaries as constraints to actions and expressions, producing and redefining boundaries, and borders as spaces to overcome and define. Borders emerge as fading and moving ``in-between{''} time and space, where materiality and the individuation process can be found and expressed. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 18/26635-6 - Between individuation and materiality: analysis of babies and young children experiences with objects
• Grantee: Gabriela Guarnieri de Campos Tebet
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• FAPESP's process: 15/10731-8 - Babies, individuation, subjectivation and singularization process experienced by them in different spaces
• Grantee: Gabriela Guarnieri de Campos Tebet
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants