Browsing by Author "Aedo, Angel"

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    Politics of Presence at the Urban Margins. Emplacement as a Performative Force Among Migrant-Settlers in Chile
    (2019) Aedo, Angel
    Drawing from fieldwork conducted in Arica, a northern Chilean city, this paper addresses the process of emplacement from the margins' as a performative force in which materialities, affective dimensions and claims are tied together. It analyses how migrants become settlers in unauthorised camps on the fringes of Arica. I argue that in this process a politics of presence' emerges, intimately imbricated in the material constitution of these settlements. I explore the potential of such politics to break the sensible' order and open the possibility for ignored actors to become present as legitimate urban interlocutors. I discuss aspects of what Kathleen Stewart describes as ordinary things that matter' because they shimmer precariously, such as the dynamic contingency derived from the building procedures commonly used in unauthorised camps.
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    Rethinking prevention as a reactive force to contain dangerous classes
    (2022) Aedo, Angel; Faba, Paulina
    The pervasiveness of preventive rationality, which is especially evident in populations caught in the prison-neighbourhood circuit, constitutes a challenging field for anthropological theory because it allows us to rethink the problem of hegemony in the context of the crises of capitalism. Drawing on research conducted in Chile amongst practitioners of crime prevention programmes and prisoners' families targeted by such initiatives, in this paper, we explore crime prevention as a political concept whose effects are inseparable from the maintenance of class and gender disparities. In conceptualising how petty crime prevention has become a predominant technology of classifying, policing and managing low-income populations, we take Foucault's notion of illegalism - as distinct from illegality - and extend it to dispossessed groups affected by dramatic levels of economic inequality and structural violence. We discuss preventive rationality in relation to the contradictions engendered by an authoritarian form of capitalism protected by constitutional constraints inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship. By connecting the conceptualisation of petty crime prevention to the ongoing contradictions of the society in which we live, we seek to sharpen attention to the ways in which the neoliberal hegemony attempts to contain its decline.
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    Towards a critical social science. Interview with Didier Fassin
    (UNIV AUTONOMA CIUDAD MEXICO, 2017) Aedo, Angel; Murray, Marjorie; Bacchiddu, Giovanna