'Pedagogies of cruelty' and the patriarchal order of the nation state: the falsos positivos as a paradigmatic example.
This article explores an episode of mass atrocity that took place in Colombia in 2002-2010 under the rule of Álvaro Uribe: the falsos positivos, a subset of extrajudicial killings carried out by state armed forces in exchange for monetary bonuses, holidays and/or promotions whose victims were more t...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 63 - 82 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=149223353&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 149223353 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13688790 56Z jtl: Postcolonial Studies issn: 13688790 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2021 vid: 24 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 149223353 10.1080/13688790.2020.1764267 ppf: 63 ppct: 19 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.4MB tig: atl: 'Pedagogies of cruelty' and the patriarchal order of the nation state: the falsos positivos as a paradigmatic example. aug: au: Giraldo, Isis affil: English Department, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland su: Extrajudicial executions Patriarchy Masculinity Landscapes Colombia sug: subj: Colombia Extrajudicial executions Patriarchy Masculinity Landscapes keyword: decolonial critique falsos positivos mandate of masculinity pedagogies of cruelty Rita Segato ab: This article explores an episode of mass atrocity that took place in Colombia in 2002-2010 under the rule of Álvaro Uribe: the falsos positivos, a subset of extrajudicial killings carried out by state armed forces in exchange for monetary bonuses, holidays and/or promotions whose victims were more than 3000 poor and mostly male people. Drawing from Rita Segato's work, I address this event from a perspective that re-centres patriarchy and coloniality. I argue that the very possibility of the killings' occurrence, staging, symbolic function and scale, and the nearly zero empathy they generated in the general population, was the result of a historical implementation of 'pedagogies of cruelty' that in the context of Colombia have successfully trained the urban classes into what I will denote 'selective desensitisation'. As an extreme enactment of the 'mandate of masculinity', these crimes constitute an event that entrenches the patriarchal order that underlies the modern-colonial nation state. Apart from providing an explanatory framework for an extraordinary example of lack of empathy for certain victims in the context of Colombia, I aim to expand Segato's concept of 'pedagogies of cruelty' so as to demonstrate its immense analytical potential in the current global political landscape. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Postcolonial Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Postcolonial Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2021 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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