Una seguridad (muy) interior del Estado. El trabajo de la prevención en familias de reclusos

This article analyses the work of prevention within a specific social field: the families of prisoners. From this place of experience, it examines how prevention takes shape as a technology of government that guides practices, thoughts and ways of being. Within this relational movement, this article...

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Main Author: Angel Aedo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de los Andes 2020-01-01
Series:Revista de Estudios Sociales
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Online Access:https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/10.7440/res71.2020.01
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Summary:This article analyses the work of prevention within a specific social field: the families of prisoners. From this place of experience, it examines how prevention takes shape as a technology of government that guides practices, thoughts and ways of being. Within this relational movement, this article theorizes the concept of “subject of prevention” in order to explain how a framework of subjectivation emerges as an agent of moral discipline, which is conceived through a neoliberal grammar of state programs, translated into ordinary language by NGO workers and driven by the imperative to prevent
ISSN:0123-885X
1900-5180