Dr Valeria Llobet
Professor, School of Humanities, Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Principal Researcher, CONICET
School of Education, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
About
Valeria is a social scientist whose interests are the micropolitics of childhood, childhood and gender rights, and the politics of inequalities. Her current research project is "Children, youth and families: social transformation, care crisis and future(s) in the long-covid." Her main contributions are related to the institutionalization of children's rights in Argentina, the politics of categorization of childhood and the production of social hierarchies, and the gender and class moralities and their interconnection with childhood.
Research Focus
Research Focus
Education
Education
- PhD in Psychology (Social Psychology) — Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Postdoctorate in Social Sciences, Childhood and Youth — COLEF, PUC San Pablo, CLACSO
- BA in Sociology — Universidad de Buenos Aires
Academic Appointments
Academic Appointments
Current: Professor, School of Humanities, Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Principal Researcher, CONICET
- Professor — School of Humanities, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (present)
- Principal Researcher — CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council)
- President — Research Council 53 (Sociology of Childhood), International Sociological Association
Publications
Publications
Llobet, V., Reynaert, D., Twum-Danso Imoh, A., & Vandenhole, W. (Eds.) (2025). Critical Children's Rights Studies: A Research Companion. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003510284 (Open Access)
Villalta, C., & Llobet, V. (2023). Building the Child Protection System in Argentina. In J. D. Berrick, N. Gilbert, & M. Skivenes (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems (pp. 587–607). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197503546.013.43
Vergara del Solar, A., Nascimento, M. L., & Llobet, V. (Eds.) (2021). South American Childhoods: Neoliberalisation and Children's Rights since the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78949-7
Llobet, V. (2019). Desde la Desjudicialización a la Refundación de los Derechos. Teseo, Buenos Aires.
Llobet, V. (2018). Stratified maternity in the Barrio: Mothers and children in Argentine social programs. In R. Rosen & K. Twamley (Eds.), Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes? (pp. 154–171). UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787350632
Llobet, V. (2018). Welfare State. In D. T. Cook (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies. SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526438140
Research Projects
Research Projects
Children, youth and families: social transformation, care crisis and future(s) in the long-covid
Type: Plurianual Research Project
Funding: CONICET & ANCYPT
Parentalidades en el sur global
Type: Working Group
Funding: CLACSO (triennial)