Cuando la clase se hace carne: itinerarios de reconstrucción de mujeres atacadas con agentes químicos en Colombia

Identifier:  TDX:4117

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX4117

Authors:  Franco Cian, Laura

Abstract:
In 2012, various journalistic sources denounced the high number of attacks with chemical agents on women in Colombia. A growing media and political interest in the phenomenon, prompted in the following years the enactment of three laws and various acts of an administrative nature through which, among other things, the care measures that must be guaranteed from the health sector to restore the physiognomy and functionality of the areas affected by acids. This thesis seeks to understand the process, always incomplete, of reconstruction of the bodies of women attacked with chemical agents in Bogotá. Through a feminist approach that includes reflexive and situated ethnographic work techniques (Haraway, 1988; Harding, 1992; Marcus, 2001), the bureaucratic (Hertzfeld, 1992), therapeutic (Kleinman, 1980) and corporal (Esteban, 2004) itineraries of the survivors are explored. In these journeys, the body itself, between scalpels and self -formulated prostheses, is read as a platform to explore a wide range of social and cultural phenomena. From the discussions that arise from the empirical data collected, which find their foundation in a situated reading that explores multiple places of enunciation, this thesis seeks to contribute to the discussions framed in feminist theorizations about the body, that question the structures of power under which are legitimized forms of reproduction of violence against the bodies and subjectivities of women in conditions of accentuated vulnerability.