Los intelectuales en la cultura de la infancia en Colombia: gutiérrez y cobos. Una introducción

Abstract

This article presents an approach to the intellectuals concerned with homeless children or "institución gamin" in Colombia between 1960 and 1990, by focusing on two Colombian psychiatrists in particular: Francisco Cobos and José Gutiérrez. The former, as a state intellectual, and the latter, as a critic, highlight, on the one hand, the political and epistemic positionings played out in the context of the emergence of the contemporary conception of childhood in Colombia; on the other, the significant bifurcations and tensions in the hegemonic imaginary of childhood that has prevailed since the nineteenth century until the present day.