ABSTRACT
This article analyzes the experiences of seven forensic anthropologists working on exhumations in cases related to political violence and armed conflict in Colombia and Peru. From a critical social psychology perspective, we investigate the ways in which these professionals manage their emotions in the face of situations of violence, including murder, massacres, and enforced disappearances. We analyze both the emotional impact of confronting mass violence and the coping mechanisms developed by these professionals in order to continue doing their work. The experiences recounted by the forensic anthropologists interviewed for this study oscillate between a marked professional commitment and the need for distance to safeguard their own emotional well-being.
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Emotions , Violence , Humans , Colombia , Peru , Violence/psychology , HomicideABSTRACT
En este artículo se analiza el lugar del cuerpo, la memoria y la oralidad en el marco de la constitución de los estados modernos en América Latina y a partir de las tramas de colonialidad que subyacen al proyecto moderno. Se toman en consideración las formas violentas en las que se silencia, se extermina y se margina a la diferencia y en las que los cuerpos, las memorias y las voces se fugan en tanto que subjetividades llevadas al límite de su borramiento y en tanto que inaprehensibles por una teoría social de los consensos.
This article analyzes the location of the body, the memory and the orality within the framework of the constitution of the modern States in Latin America and from the plots of coloniality that underlie the modern project.The violent forms addressed are the ones in which difference is silenced, exterminated and marginalized and in which the bodies, the memories and the voices escape. The bodies produced by the violence are considered subjectivities taken to the limit from their erasure and un-learnable by a social theory of the consensus.