“Para as crianças, distração...”: sobre formas de se olhar a infância em contextos de desastres’’

Abstract

The production of disasters, as a result of previously conceived processes, invariably goes through personal experiences, including children as subjects of the lived social reality. This paper presents some reflections on childhood in contexts of disasters in Brazil, a theme that hasn’t been much explored considering the accumulated number of recent disasters associated with mining in the country. Based on two experiences with communities affected by the rupture of the Córrego do Feijão mine, in the municipality of Brumadinho (Minas Gerais, Brazil), we bring reflections on different processes of silencing and making children invisible in this context. For this purpose, we dialogue with categories traditionally discussed in the field of Childhood Studies, such as playing, the notion of children’s rights and childhood within processes of social mobilization.