They don't see us yet. Forms of girls' participation in the production and reproduction of life

Abstract

Based on an ethnographic study carried out in squatters' houses in the city of Buenos Aires during the isolation measures in 2020, we will analyse the modes of participation that girls who lived there had in the tasks of care, in the labour market and in the political action of a neighbourhood organisation. In a dialogue between feminist theories and anthropologies of the ages, the category of participation is broadened and the field research reflects an image where life is produced and reproduced from intergenerational relations, in which all ages generate value, support each other, enter into conflict and invent daily uprisings against pain.