Torture and suffering, dictatorship and violence
This article discusses torture as a practice that was denied and at the same time practiced bythe civilian-military dictatorships of Brazil (1964-1985) and Argentina (1976-1983). For thatpurpose we discuss the concepts of power in Arendt and Foucault and the state of exceptionin Agamben, proposing t...
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Lutas Sociais. ISSN 1415-854X
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/ls/article/view/25698 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=br/br-027&d=article25698oai |
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| Sumario: | This article discusses torture as a practice that was denied and at the same time practiced bythe civilian-military dictatorships of Brazil (1964-1985) and Argentina (1976-1983). For thatpurpose we discuss the concepts of power in Arendt and Foucault and the state of exceptionin Agamben, proposing the new concept of “Bio-power of sovereignty.” This article is basedon a doctoral research project that sought to understand the mode of being and suffering ofthe political prisoner undergoing torture through the analysis of five thousand testimonies ofpolitical prisoners who were tortured by these dictatorships. |
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