Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Rebón, Julián
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2009-2015
Idioma
spa
Extent
246 p.
Derechos
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Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.0 Genérica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Identificador
Cobertura
ARG
2009-2015
Abstract
The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyze collective actions of punitive violence carried out in Argentina during 2009-2015. We have defined these as collective actions in which physical harm is purposely inflicted upon bodies and objects with the aim to express disconformity and/or retaliation in connection with a previous violent incident. The hypothesis followed asserts that the ways in which punitive violence is implemented in Argentina are heterogeneous, inasmuch as they depend on the dynamics of the collective actions implied in their evolution. In this context, our objective has been to exhaustively explore the different types of actions within the aforementioned period drawing from some of the main variables of the collective action theory (the kind of subjects who perform these actions, where they take place, incidents involved, recipients of such actions, etc.) and to observe their historical evolution. In order to do so, a mixed methodology was implemented, based on a qualitative database, built from national and local press recordings of said actions and qualitative case studies of episodes deemed emblematic. The result of the quantitative approach was the constitution of three different types of actions (outbursts, onslaughts and lynchings) in accordance with their degree of coordination, precipitating factor, subjects and recipients.
Following, we went on to identify and analyze emblematic cases. Firstly, the outburst in Baradero in 2010 that stemmed from the death of two teenagers after a police chase shows that these demonstrations generally contain elements of disconformity which transcend the precipitant factors, constituting themselves as popular street protests with distinctive characteristics. Political actors may be involved as such collective outbreaks of violence can be used as a resource to supplement their institutional actions. This shows that said outbursts happen at the crossroads between extra-institutional contentious collective actions, mechanisms and processes of collective violence, which offer an explanation about the evolution of the damages, and the likely participation of actors at institutional policy level.
Secondly, the approach adopted to analyze the onslaughts was based on a case in Comodoro Rivadavia after the death of a girl in a low-income neighborhood. The violence witnessed that day is framed within the confrontation between popular sectors that refers to the differentiation between established and outsiders provided by Norbert Elías (2003). Furthermore, the conflict is set within an economy of violent exchanges, which characterizes the coexistence of a great portion of popular areas. Given the recurrence of onslaughts against dwellings as a favored form of collective action, we can conclude that said conduct has been established in the repertoire of possible collective actions in the recent popular memory in Argentina.
Lastly, the lynchings were studied through several cases which took place in the city of Buenos Aires throughout 2014. Each reflects the scarce degree of coordination of the actions, the non-existence of previous connections between the attackers and the absence of planification and mobilization in the collective action, which is generally triggered under certain favorable conditions (that the original attacker is not in possession of a weapon, the impunity of the responding collective, among others). This way, unlike in other Latin American countries, we cannot assert that said lynchings belong in the repertoire of collective actions in Argentina, nor that they emerge routinely or in a ritualized manner.
Following, we went on to identify and analyze emblematic cases. Firstly, the outburst in Baradero in 2010 that stemmed from the death of two teenagers after a police chase shows that these demonstrations generally contain elements of disconformity which transcend the precipitant factors, constituting themselves as popular street protests with distinctive characteristics. Political actors may be involved as such collective outbreaks of violence can be used as a resource to supplement their institutional actions. This shows that said outbursts happen at the crossroads between extra-institutional contentious collective actions, mechanisms and processes of collective violence, which offer an explanation about the evolution of the damages, and the likely participation of actors at institutional policy level.
Secondly, the approach adopted to analyze the onslaughts was based on a case in Comodoro Rivadavia after the death of a girl in a low-income neighborhood. The violence witnessed that day is framed within the confrontation between popular sectors that refers to the differentiation between established and outsiders provided by Norbert Elías (2003). Furthermore, the conflict is set within an economy of violent exchanges, which characterizes the coexistence of a great portion of popular areas. Given the recurrence of onslaughts against dwellings as a favored form of collective action, we can conclude that said conduct has been established in the repertoire of possible collective actions in the recent popular memory in Argentina.
Lastly, the lynchings were studied through several cases which took place in the city of Buenos Aires throughout 2014. Each reflects the scarce degree of coordination of the actions, the non-existence of previous connections between the attackers and the absence of planification and mobilization in the collective action, which is generally triggered under certain favorable conditions (that the original attacker is not in possession of a weapon, the impunity of the responding collective, among others). This way, unlike in other Latin American countries, we cannot assert that said lynchings belong in the repertoire of collective actions in Argentina, nor that they emerge routinely or in a ritualized manner.
Título obtenido
Doctor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales