This article examines the valuation struggles around Argentina's Asignación Universal por Hijo para Protección Social (AUH), a large conditional cash transfer (CCT) program introduced in 2009. Thinking about value as a verb invites us to move away from reified notions and to consider the work differently positioned social actors do to value and devalue specific ideas, practices, people, and things. The article identifies two broad perspectives on the AUH, one that frames the social payments as an entitlement based on the rights of children and the other that frames the AUH as social assistance or help. There were many reasons to believe the AUH would have broad social support, yet most people, even most beneficiaries, saw the AUH as assistance rather than a right. Two other key concepts at play are work and dignity. These diverse views intersect—surprisingly—in discussion around sneakers, a topic that every interview and commentary on the AUH seems eventually to mention. Sneakers appear as a sign of dignity or as evidence of misspent government funds. This article thus attends to how political struggles are centrally about the practices of valuing and devaluing specific kinds of people.

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估值与贬值：关于社会支付、尊严和运动鞋的斗争

本文探讨了围绕阿根廷 Asignación Universal por Hijo para Protección Social (AUH) 的估值斗争，该计划是 2009 年推出的一项大型有条件现金转移 (CCT) 计划。将价值视为动词，让我们摆脱具体化的概念，并考虑不同定位的社会参与者所做的工作是评价和贬低特定的想法、实践、人和事物。本文对 AUH 提出了两种广泛的观点，一种将社会支付界定为基于儿童权利的一项权利，另一种将 AUH 界定为社会援助或帮助。有很多理由相信 AUH 会得到广泛的社会支持，但大多数人，甚至大多数受益人，都将 AUH 视为一种援助，而不是一项权利。另外两个重要的概念是工作和尊严。令人惊讶的是，这些不同的观点在围绕运动鞋的讨论中相互交叉，AUH 的每次采访和评论似乎最终都会提到这个话题。运动鞋似乎是尊严的标志或政府资金被滥用的证据。因此，本文关注的是政治斗争如何集中于评价和贬低特定类型的人的实践。