Violent death, public problems and changes in Argentina

Gayol, Sandra; Kessler, Gabriel

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“…Thirdly, while examining the case of Brandon Romero, a young man who died as a result of police violence in the city of Mar del Plata, I will explore the social mobilization that emerged around the public denunciation of the event and the activism directed against police violence that it triggered (Pita 2010). All of which sheds light on the legal controversies that occurred during the enquiry into Romero's violent death (Gayol and Kessler 2015). In short, I convey the struggle of his family and friends in their search for justice.…”

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(Re)Thinking Authoritarianism in Democracy

Mira¹

2022

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This chapter examines the expressions of authoritarianism that can occur in non-authoritarian regimes, whereby the most extreme examples are arbitrary killings carried out by public officials. I seek to provoke critical reflections on the need to observe, analyse, and denounce the authoritarianism that persists in democratic countries and which infringes on people's most fundamental rights, such as the right to life or the right to live free from torture. The goal is to offer a means of accounting both for different forms of authoritarianism and for public response strategies in the form public denunciations.

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“…of state violence, which at their height resulted in the violent deaths of the defenceless and vulnerable Kessler 2015 and2018). These denunciations configured these events as injustices, which thus enable demands for justice to be made.…”

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(Re)Thinking Authoritarianism in Democracy

Mira¹

2022

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“…of state violence, which at their height resulted in the violent deaths of the defenceless and vulnerable Kessler 2015 and. These denunciations configured these events as injustices, which thus enable demands for justice to be made.…”

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Global Authoritarianism

2022

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once again discusses dependency, forms of subordination and exploitation, ecologies of territories and knowledge systems, the racist legacies of state forms, and the ways that capital metabolizes that which combats it. From my point of view, the initiatives of militant investigation develop a kind of sensitivity in composing statements and resolving conflicts. It's a form of action: it is not a mode of analysis that is devoid of imagination, and even less of calling on others to act. Understood in this way, militant investigation is less a thematization (in the sense of constructing an agenda) and more a question of method, and of a practical commitment. The gravity of the themes discussed here demands nothing less.whether the concept of authoritarianism can provide us with anything more than a formal description of what, in the worst case, is seen merely as a 'deviation' from the ideal liberal model of the state.We consider that it can, but this requires acknowledging, as Pedro Salgado argues, that "liberal values are not mutually exclusive with authoritarian practices, but simply rearrange them around a different conception of political subjectivity" (in this volume). Likewise, as the Brazilian sociologist Florestan Fernandes pointed out, under capitalist democracy, the "authoritarian element is intrinsically a structural and dynamic component of preservation, strengthening and expansion of the 'capitalist democratic system'" (2019, 45). In this sense, Julieta Mira shows how authoritarian institutional practices are embedded within democratic regimes, and Hülya Dinçer in her text points towards the often processual authoritarian transformation when discussing Turkey's transition towards "autocratic legalism" and the systematic creation of "legal black holes" for arbitrary authoritarian rule.Thus, a critical global perspective on authoritarianism implies both to acknowledge its inherent inscription and embeddedness in (post)colonial capitalist states and societies, and to think of it in historically and geographically specific terms, as Inés Durán Matute and Mariano Féliz develop in this book. In this sense, we consider that the concept does not compete with other, sometimes more specific accounts-be they fascism or Bonapartism, authoritarian populism or authoritarian neoliberalism-but rather allows us to build a conceptual arc between the concrete and necessarily specific expressions of a global trend towards an increasingly weaponized regime of capital accumulation coupled with processes of de-democratization and brutalization of social and political practices and relations.At the core of the current authoritarian turn of global capitalism lies a shared experience of a world in crisis-a multifaceted or 'civilizational crisis', as some observers write. The ecological crisis coincides with overlapping national, regional, and international political crises, a global crisis of representation and, by extension, of the legitimacy of (neo-)liberal democracies, massive economic dislocations, and a long train of closel...

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“…The quote corresponds to one of the 30 interviews I have done for a broader research about the punishment of homicide in Buenos Aires. However, it is worth mentioning that there are multiple dogmatic discussions regarding this justification.11 Although not focusing on the criminal system, and from a different perspective,Gayol and Kessler (2017) explore the differential treatment given to certain anonymous violent deaths which were built as public problems in contemporary Argentina. See as wellGayol and Kessler 2018.…”

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Non-criminal murders: A sociological essay about the use of self-defence in Argentina

Lassalle¹

2021

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This article seeks to examine the use of the figure of self-defence in the practices of the Buenos Aires criminal justice system. As we will show with the analysis of some paradigmatic cases, through the use of this exceptional figure, this criminal justice system produces certain murders as non-criminal acts to, paradoxically, safeguard individual life as a hegemonic value. Moreover, we will observe that the use of this legal figure reveals that killings to protect private property may not have a criminal character either. This in turn suggests that private property is also a hegemonic value for this criminal justice system, and that the allegedly supremacy of individual life over private property in its value scale should be at least questioned.

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Violent death, public problems and changes in Argentina

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