HOW TO BLESS CHILDREN: GEOGRAPHIES OF CARE AND CHILDHOOD TERRITORIES
Abstract
In this text, our attention is focused on understanding how the care relationships between parents, sons and daughters materialize in spaces. The intention is to understand how relationships of care become spatial, to understand how a geography of care engendered by parents constitutes a geography of parenting. We bring to the debate Aitken's research (2019a, 2019b) on the Slovenian families that were erased by history, by the official instruments of citizenship and by the Foreigners' Law and how it affected theparents' care relationships with their sons and daughters. Continuing the text, we present a theme that has been recurring in our investigations, now in Brazilian territory: the practices of healers and blessers. The works of Pereira and Gomes (2018) and Lopes (1998) help us to better understand these subjects who exercise healing rituals –which can be considered care practices – in which the blesser forges around him a web of protection. Relating the figure of the father to the blesser, we analyze the character Zeca Chapéu Grande, from the novel Torto arado, by Itamar Vieira Junior (2020), as a possible representation of this subject who takes care of his own children at the same time that he has an expanding paternity beyond his home, embracing all those who seek him in search of care and protection. Thus, through out the text, the intention was to highlight the relationships between parents and children that occur in the spaces of their lives and how parents are creating a geography of care in their surroundings.
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