Producing Youth in Chile. Youngsters in knowledges, legislations and institutions (1870-1930)

Abstract

The article analyzes the production of age attributes century in Chile, in the last decades of the nineteenth to the early twentieth century. It emphasizes the construction / production of ideas of youth. The analysis is performed from a genealogical approach, exploring the ways of producing knowledge concerning ages and its relations of power. Based on secondary sources from the field of historiography, we will present institutional and state discourses and narratives over youth, rescuing age and gender dimensions, to recognize how from schools to public health policies and legislation the formation of ideas about youngsters in Chile took place in the early twentieth century. The analyzed corpus consists of academic texts written by historians and social scientists, and the analysis is mainly focused on those invisibilized by official history as well as the mechanisms that produced these invisibilities.