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Las nuevas formas de la guerra y el cuerpo de las mujeres

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Las nuevas formas de la guerra, caracterizadas por la informalidad, se despliegan hoy en un espacio intersticial que podemos caracterizar como para-estatal porque se encuentra controlado por corporaciones armadas con participación de efectivos estatales y para estatales. En esa esfera de para-estatalidad en franca expansión, la violencia contra las mujeres ha dejado de ser un efecto colateral de la guerra y se ha transformado en un objetivo estratégico de este nuevo escenario bélico. Se examinan aquí las transformaciones históricas que circundan la informalización de la guerra y la centralidad que asume en ellas una "pedagogía de la crueldad" contra aquéllos que no juegan el papel de antagonistas armados - mujeres y niños - en los enfrentamientos.

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Rita Segato

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Rita Laura Segato is an Argentine-Brazilian academic, who has been called "one of Latin America's most celebrated feminist anthropologists" and "one of the most lucid feminist thinkers of this era". She is specially known for her research oriented towards gender in indigenous villages and Latin American communities, violence against women and the relationships between gender, racism and colonialism. One of her specialist areas is the study of gender violence.

Segato was born in Buenos Aires and educated at the Instituto Interamericano de Etnomusicología y Folklore de Caracas. She has an MA and a PhD in anthropology (1984) from Queens University, Belfast. She teaches Anthropology at the University of Brasilia, where she holds the UNESCO Chair of Anthropology and Bioethics; since 2011 she has taught on the Postgraduate Programme of Bioethics and Human Rights. She additionally carries out research on behalf of Brazil's National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.

In 2016, along with Prudencio García Martínez, Segato was an expert witness in the Sepur Zarco case, in which senior officers at a military base in Guatemala were convicted of crimes against humanity as a result of the holding of fourteen women in sexual and domestic slavery. The defence tried to challenge the expertise of the witnesses, but their appeal was unsuccessful. Her works were an inspiration to the Chilean collective Las Tesis from Valparaíso for the song and performance A Rapist in Your Path, which was performed by women throughout America, Europe and Australia.

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June 6, 2020
Rita segato es realmente brillante y hace una tarea muy importante: poner en palabras el acontecer. Libro cortito que ayuda a definir y analizar la evolución de las formas de guerra especialmente en latinoamérica y el lugar que se le ha impuesto al territorio femenino. Eso sí sentí que en la búsqueda de acomodar el lenguaje a veces se entra en juegos de palabras que marean un poco, pero entiendo por qué ocurre. Me molestó en un par de páginas nada más.
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October 31, 2022
Este libro es muy duro pero necesario, Segato ha trabajado el tema del feminicidio, el cuerpo y el Estado de una forma impresionante.
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