Predictive puericulture in Argentina: The Plataforma Tecnológica de Intervención Social and the reproduction of Latin eugenics
In April 2018, as the Argentine Congress debated decriminalizing abortion, local media revealed that public-health officials in a northern province had deployed an algorithmic system to predict teenage pregnancy. Public response to the technology quickly became entangled in society-wide debates abou...
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| author | Alexa Hagerty Florencia Aranda Diego Jemio Syed Mustafa Ali Stephanie Dick Sarah Dillon Matthew L. Jones Jonnie Penn Richard Staley |
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| description | In April 2018, as the Argentine Congress debated decriminalizing abortion, local media revealed that public-health officials in a northern province had deployed an algorithmic system to predict teenage pregnancy. Public response to the technology quickly became entangled in society-wide debates about reproductive rights. Both proponents and detractors of the algorithmic system framed the technology as novel and cutting-edge. However, this paper argues for an analysis of the system not as a form of innovation or rupture but as a continuation of historical forms of biopolitical governance in Argentina, particularly puericultura, a eugenic theory of child rearing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3e4f58f962224334b7f7d57bf36cbbdf2023-12-22T09:11:49ZengCambridge University PressBJHS Themes2058-850X2056-354X2023-01-01822123510.1017/bjt.2023.2Predictive puericulture in Argentina: The Plataforma Tecnológica de Intervención Social and the reproduction of Latin eugenicsAlexa Hagerty0Florencia Aranda1Diego Jemio2Syed Mustafa AliStephanie DickSarah DillonMatthew L. JonesJonnie PennRichard StaleyMinderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, UKIndependent Researcher and Activist, ArgentinaIndependent Researcher and Journalist, ArgentinaIn April 2018, as the Argentine Congress debated decriminalizing abortion, local media revealed that public-health officials in a northern province had deployed an algorithmic system to predict teenage pregnancy. Public response to the technology quickly became entangled in society-wide debates about reproductive rights. Both proponents and detractors of the algorithmic system framed the technology as novel and cutting-edge. However, this paper argues for an analysis of the system not as a form of innovation or rupture but as a continuation of historical forms of biopolitical governance in Argentina, particularly puericultura, a eugenic theory of child rearing.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058850X23000024/type/journal_article |
| spellingShingle | Alexa Hagerty Florencia Aranda Diego Jemio Syed Mustafa Ali Stephanie Dick Sarah Dillon Matthew L. Jones Jonnie Penn Richard Staley Predictive puericulture in Argentina: The Plataforma Tecnológica de Intervención Social and the reproduction of Latin eugenics BJHS Themes |
| title | Predictive puericulture in Argentina: The Plataforma Tecnológica de Intervención Social and the reproduction of Latin eugenics |
| title_full | Predictive puericulture in Argentina: The Plataforma Tecnológica de Intervención Social and the reproduction of Latin eugenics |
| title_fullStr | Predictive puericulture in Argentina: The Plataforma Tecnológica de Intervención Social and the reproduction of Latin eugenics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Predictive puericulture in Argentina: The Plataforma Tecnológica de Intervención Social and the reproduction of Latin eugenics |
| title_short | Predictive puericulture in Argentina: The Plataforma Tecnológica de Intervención Social and the reproduction of Latin eugenics |
| title_sort | predictive puericulture in argentina the plataforma tecnologica de intervencion social and the reproduction of latin eugenics |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058850X23000024/type/journal_article |
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