RELIGACIÓN

Yazarlar: Vanessa Beltrán

Konular:-

DOI:10.46652/rgn.v6i30.787

Anahtar Kelimeler:Penal state; gender; politicization; health; medical violence

Özet: This article inquiries into the experiences of illness and penal internment of Analía Silva, an Afro-Ecuadorian woman, and co-founder of the organization Mujeres de Frente (MDF), who was convicted multiple times for drug micro-trafficking and diagnosed in 2017 with chronic renal failure. Through the ethnographic reconstruction of her illness (2017-2020), the text discusses how the processes of dispossession and prison confinement are embodied in the experience of illness of an impoverished and racialized woman by the Ecuadorian penal state. The argument proposed is that, at the intersection of her experiences of illness and criminal punishment, the links that unite prison, the clinic, and the street as expressions of the government of the poor are expressed. The analysis based on the notion of body-territory, reveals the experience of suffering and confinement as symptoms of a social system that is organized by exclusion and selective abandonment of the state, that in the treatment of diseases such as renal failure, normalized violence are reproduced under the hierarchy of knowledge and the establishment of moral order that punishes as indiscipline, the complaint, and the contest and that in the midst of contexts of subjection, it is also possible to find politicizing networks with transformative potential.

---