Cuerpos políticos y políticas sobre el cuerpo en las dictaduras latinoamericanas

Abstract

Abstract: Through content analysis it is proposed relate theorizing from various academic sources has been carried around the body with historical moments of the recent past in Latin America, particularly in dictatorial period. A review of torture and disappearance as central elements in national construction and the capitalist formation is proposed; and the use and production of speeches around the body as resistance against the state order that has been imposed violence in the context of different dictatorships in countries in South America. We will track the scientific production to understand the human body as social and symbolically constructed and will discuss a historical journey through some case studies. In such cases the exercise of torture, ill-treatment and harassment have served to generate power dynamics-resistance around the person, not viewed from an individual or psychological but social, relational and construction sight. Keywords: torture, resistance, violence, neoliberalism, Latin America