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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Extract

Violence as a public and private practice is a constant. Furthermore, it belongs in the political axis since political institutions measure, plan, and distribute it, inscribing and administering it according to their productive and programmatic interests.

Violence is adaptable and acquires different forms and formats, which range from the most concrete corporeal reality to the infliction of punishment on the symbolic and emotional registers of the subject. It is mobile but enduring, adjusting to the emergence of new social subjects. The enduring struggle against violence resituates and changes it, bringing about the penalization of practices considered abusive, such as long workdays, certain school regulations, or the beating of women.

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Theories and Methodologies
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2009

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Work Cited

Comisión Nacional sobre Prisión Política y Tortura. Informe de la comisión. Ministerio del Interior. Comisión Nacional sobre Prisión Política y Tortura, 2004–05. Web. 6 July 2009.Google Scholar