Abstract
Our researching experience concerning the Child and Adolescent Statute highlights institutional practices that relate the movement of the child in the city with practices of gathering and sheltering in certain establishments. We problematize how the relations between childhood and city are built in power relations aiming governing life, by developing a genealogic study based on Michel Foucault, with two analyses paths: the creation of mechanisms that articulate the childhood, the family and the urban space in modern society, considering Jacques Donzelot and Philippe Ariès’ studies; and the records of the reference guidelines on childhood policy in Brazil (Minors’ Code – 1927 and 1979, Child and Adolescent Statue - 1990). Among the ways of governing and inventing childhood and the city in Brazil, we find the diagram of a sense of subject of children’s rights.
childhood; city; power relationships
