Abstract

MANCHADO, Mauricio. Displacements of Fear and the Human Condition: A Reading About the Modalities of Punishment in Times of Pandemic. Temas debates (En línea) [online]. 2020, n.40, suppl.1, pp.297-305. ISSN 1853-984X.

In this work we propose to think about how, from the provision of the Preventive and Mandatory Social Isolation (ASPO) in Argentina, displacements of senses around the fears caused by this situation were configured. Our hypothesis is that the initial fear around the virus and its expansion –invisible enemy– became an eternal return to the usual fears and dangers: criminals and inmates. In this sense, and taking as material for analysis the events arising from the demands of inmates in the first months of the pandemic –and the subsequent media campaign on the "mass release of prisoners"–, we will analyze how it was they stressed social discourses that, on the one hand, sought to restore the human condition of the detainees, and others to reestablish the suspended delimitation to define and qualify which lives were livable and which were not.

Keywords : Fear; Human condition; Prison; Power; Pandemic.

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