Desplazamientos del miedo y condición humana. Una lectura sobre las modalidades del castigo en tiempos de pandemia
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2020-07
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En este trabajo nos proponemos pensar cómo
se configuraron, desde la disposición del
Aislamiento Social, Preventivo y Obligatorio
(ASPO) en Argentina, desplazamientos de sentidos en torno a los miedos provocados por dicha situación. Nuestra hipótesis es que el temor
inicial al virus y su expansión –enemigo invisible– devino en un eterno retorno a los miedos
y a los peligrosos de siempre: delincuentes y
encarcelados. En ese sentido, y tomando como
material de análisis los acontecimientos surgidos
a partir de las demandas de personas privadas de
su libertad en los primeros meses de la pandemia
–y la subsiguiente campaña mediática sobre la
“liberación masiva de presos”–, analizaremos
cómo se tensionaron ciertos discursos sociales
que, por un lado, buscaban restituir la condición
humana de los/as detenidos/as, mientras que,
por otro lado, intentaban reestablecer las cesuras suspendidas para definir y calificar qué vidas
eran vivibles y cuáles no.
In this work we propose to think about how, from the provision of the Preventive and Mandatory Social Isolation (ASPO) in Argentina, displacements of senses around the fears caused by this situation were configured. Our hypothesis is that the initial fear around the virus and its expansion –invisible enemy– became an eternal return to the usual fears and dangers: criminals and inmates. In this sense, and taking as material for analysis the events arising from the demands of inmates in the first months of the pandemic –and the subsequent media campaign on the “mass release of prisoners”–, we will analyze how it was they stressed social discourses that, on the one hand, sought to restore the human condition of the detainees, and others to reestablish the suspended delimitation to define and qualify which lives were livable and which were not.
In this work we propose to think about how, from the provision of the Preventive and Mandatory Social Isolation (ASPO) in Argentina, displacements of senses around the fears caused by this situation were configured. Our hypothesis is that the initial fear around the virus and its expansion –invisible enemy– became an eternal return to the usual fears and dangers: criminals and inmates. In this sense, and taking as material for analysis the events arising from the demands of inmates in the first months of the pandemic –and the subsequent media campaign on the “mass release of prisoners”–, we will analyze how it was they stressed social discourses that, on the one hand, sought to restore the human condition of the detainees, and others to reestablish the suspended delimitation to define and qualify which lives were livable and which were not.
Keywords
Pandemia, COVID-19, Miedo, Condición humana, Prisiones, Poder, Human condition