Aníbal : un cuerpo sacrificial en un circuito de muerte institucional
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2015
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Escuela de Trabajo Social. Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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En 1993, la muerte dramática
de Aníbal, en el contexto de una
intervención inter-institucional, indujo
a reflexionar críticamente sobre el papel
de la interpretación; sobre sus límites
y perspectivas para la misma desde la
Antropología y el Trabajo Social. Las
implicaciones teórico-metodológicas
de la interpretación –que mediatiza
toda práctica de intervención– nos
orientó a un recorrido a través de
los procedimientos que actúan
constituyendo un problema (en este
caso el representado por Aníbal)
para los discursos jurídicos, médicos,
psiquiátricos, de los psicólogos y
trabajadores sociales que trataron
con él; más los familiares que lo
marcaron de modo categórico. Más
que un “problema”, el caso de Aníbal
representó la construcción de una
subjetividad dentro de un circuito
institucional en que su cuerpo fue
“un cuerpo sacrificial”. La dimensión
simbólica que adquieren estos
discursos entrelazados, forman una
trama en que su muerte adquiere una
densidad muy significativa. Este es
el eje de nuestra revisión actual del
caso de Aníbal que pone en jaque la
complicidad de las diversas prácticas
y discursos intervinientes, en tanto
ellos los anticipa, liminarizándolo, su
muerte en un circuito institucional.
Avanzamos con ello en la
profundización y ampliación del
concepto de “violencia institucional”
In 1993, Anibal’s dramatic death, in the context of an inter-institutional intervention, induced to think critically about the part taken by interpretation; about its limits and perspectives seen from Anthropology and Social Work. The theoreticalmethodological implications of interpretation –which mediates every intervention practice– orientated us to a path through the procedures that act establishing a problem (in this case represented by Anibal) to the legal, medical, psychiatric, psychologists and social worker’s speeches that treated with him; added up to the relatives that signed it up categorically. Not so much a “problem”, Anibal’s case represented the construction of subjectivity inside an institutional circuit, in which his body became “a superficial body”. The symbolic dimension that these linked speeches get makes a plot where his death is heavily significant. This is the core of our current revision of Anibal’s case that checkmates the complicity of diverse intervenient practices and speeches, as long as they anticipate, criminalizing, and his death in an institutional circuit. We take a step forward in this aspect, in a deeper and broader sense of the concept of “institutional violence”
In 1993, Anibal’s dramatic death, in the context of an inter-institutional intervention, induced to think critically about the part taken by interpretation; about its limits and perspectives seen from Anthropology and Social Work. The theoreticalmethodological implications of interpretation –which mediates every intervention practice– orientated us to a path through the procedures that act establishing a problem (in this case represented by Anibal) to the legal, medical, psychiatric, psychologists and social worker’s speeches that treated with him; added up to the relatives that signed it up categorically. Not so much a “problem”, Anibal’s case represented the construction of subjectivity inside an institutional circuit, in which his body became “a superficial body”. The symbolic dimension that these linked speeches get makes a plot where his death is heavily significant. This is the core of our current revision of Anibal’s case that checkmates the complicity of diverse intervenient practices and speeches, as long as they anticipate, criminalizing, and his death in an institutional circuit. We take a step forward in this aspect, in a deeper and broader sense of the concept of “institutional violence”
Palabras clave
Antropología, Trabajo Social, Muerte, Violencia institucional, Anthropology, Social work, Institutional violence