"Privileged Parenting": Race, Affect and Urbanism in Two Affluent Latin American Neighborhoods

<strong>CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES, JNU</strong> a Seminar on <strong>"Privileged Parenting": Race, Affect and Urbanism in Two Affluent Latin American Neighborhoods</strong> By <strong>Prof. Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas</strong> (City University of New York, Graduate Center, Department of Psychology) This talk will explore the relationship between race, class, and parenting in two affluent neighborhoods in Latin America --El Condado (San Juan, Puerto Rico) and Ipanema (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). The speaker's goal is to better understand how an ubiquitous form of privileged parenting –actively performed, expertly informed, ornamented by consumption goods, embroiled in networks "like-minded" individuals and their care workers, and generative of child-centered spaces, activities and services— has come to transform not only adult socialization practices, but also the very core of Latin American urbanism -and its particular racial and class dynamics. While class-specific parenting trends have become ubiquitous feature of urban centers around the world, and circulated in journalistic and popular literature, there has been only limited empirical analysis about how such forms of "parenting" –and the (re)socialization it requires of adults, not just the outcome for children- shape sovereignty in its more intimately lived, affective forms. Grounding this presentation in the historical, symbolic, and urban contexts of Ipanema and El Condado, and the racialized and class complexity of these globally-renowned Latin American neighborhoods, she will explore how sovereignty is enacted, embodied, and experienced through elite parenting practices and an intrinsic investment in the production of a privileged form of "racialized affect" and parenting cultures that are largely expressions of the driving forces in a society increasingly concerned with "risk" and "insecurity." Date: <strong>9 August 2016</strong>