Browsing by Author "Aedo Gajardo, Juan Angel"

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    Confinement in pandemic times: Two Tales of Prisons, Epidemics, and Power from the Global South
    (Taylor and Francis, 2024) Aedo Gajardo, Juan Angel; Droppelmann, Catalina; Le Marcis, Frederic; Montanari, Daniela
    © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Nathan W. Link, Meghan A. Novisky, & Chantal Fahmy; individual chapters, the contributors.The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities within prison systems worldwide. This chapter explores these vulnerabilities through a comparative examination of Chile and Guinea, two geographically distant and culturally distinct nations in the Global South. It argues that despite their differences, both countries reveal a similar articulation between prisons, epidemics, and power. The case studies reveal that both Chile and Guinea responded to COVID-19 by prioritizing biopolitical control over prisoners’ well-being. This is evidenced by the implementation of strict measures, including limitations on parcels, visits, and access to healthcare outside prison walls. These measures, while effective in minimizing fatalities, came at the expense of prisoners’ quality of life and mental health. In Chile, efforts focused on preserving biological life within the confines of prison walls, facilitating collaboration between authorities and inmates to enforce restrictions. In contrast, Guinea’s response was characterized by inconsistencies and opportunism, reflecting broader political tensions and a lack of commitment to prisoner welfare. The chapter examines the fear of death among prison populations. While both Chilean and Guinean prisoners acknowledged vulnerability, their experiences diverged. Chilean prisoners expressed a fear of dying abandoned, while Guinean prisoners viewed COVID-19 as less of a threat compared to past health crises. The chapter concludes by emphasizing the need for a systematic analysis of the pandemic’s impact on prisons. While COVID-19 failed to trigger major reforms, valuable lessons can be learned regarding biopolitical management, legitimacy building, and mitigating future health emergencies within prison settings.
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    Domesticidad carcelaria: cuidado y coacción optimista en hogares de reclusos, Chile
    (2025) Aedo Gajardo, Juan Angel
    Esta investigación examina cómo las políticas de prevención de la delincuencia en Chile implementan una forma particular de coacción optimista que opera a través de la gramática del cuidado en hogares afectados por el encarcelamiento. Frente a los familiares de personas encarceladas, el Estado chileno adopta una postura dual: los considera tanto potenciales fuentes de riesgo como víctimas necesitadas de asistencia y cuidado preventivo. Centrándose en las experiencias de mujeres jefas de hogar que participan en programas anti-delincuencia, el estudio revela cómo la domesticidad carcelaria funciona como un mecanismo de control que contiene espacial y temporalmente a poblaciones etiquetadas como propensas a conductas desviadas. Este concepto de domesticidad carcelaria se manifiesta como una forma de coacción que confina y estigmatiza el espacio doméstico de hogares de bajos ingresos. La investigación concluye que esta domesticidad carcelaria, inextricablemente vinculada a la policía del orden social, debe entenderse como un mecanismo para contener las tensiones que emergen de las desigualdades de género, las contradicciones de clase y la violencia colonia
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    El vitalismo de los márgenes
    (2020) Faba, P.; Aedo Gajardo, Juan Angel
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    Mapuche anticolonial politics and Chile’s Social Uprising
    (Duke University Press, 2024) Aedo Gajardo, Juan Angel; Bernasconi Ramírez, Oriana María Loreto; Martínez, Damián Omar; Olivari, Alicia; Pairican Padilla, Fernando Antonio; Porma, Juan
    This essay examines milestones in the life history of one subject, Mauricio Lepin, and his involvement in the Chilean social uprising. By exploring the encounter of his trajectory with the uprising, the essay reveals under-explored dimensions of the anticolonial character of this critical event in Chile's history of the present. Lepin's case shows the entanglement of a long history of dispossession and resistance of the Mapuche people with a biographical story of social marginalization, political exclusion, and economic precariousness, shared with large majorities of Mapuche and non-Mapuche youth. It concludes by analyzing how, through the uprising, Lepin appears before himself as an actor among a multitude in struggle by putting into action the plural right to appear and the self-determination of a sovereign people.
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    Multitude and Memory in the Chilean Social Uprising
    (2024) Aedo Gajardo, Juan Angel; Bernasconi Ramírez, Oriana María Loreto; Martínez, Damián Omar; Olivari, Alicia; Pairican Padilla, Fernando Antonio; Porna, Juan
    Between October 2019 and March 2020 Chile experienced the most massive and heavily repressed cycle of social protests in its post‐dictatorship (1973–90) history. This essay explores the social uprising as a critical event of political subjectivation through the story of Ricardo, an ordinary young medical technician with no background of political affiliation who fully immersed himself in the forefront of confrontation with the police in the ground zero protest zone while also providing first‐aid assistance to those injured. Two vectors triggering Ricardo's unexpected and sudden transformation into an activist are identified: the intergenerational potency of antidictatorial memories and the power of the spontaneous multitude in demonstration. In recalling the dictatorship, Ricardo and his friends used to ask themselves, “What would I have done if I'd been there?” In the face of the social uprising, Ricardo brings to the present that generation‐specific question and responds with total exposure, defending the multitude and healing the wounded. We argue that the event's critical nature is interpreted in the light of the past. Ricardo's involvement becomes an ethical imperative in his time and in his own history. This duty fuels his mobilization and desire for social transformation, blurring the analytical boundaries between ethics and politics.
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    The act of knowing and the indeterminacy of the known in Huichol contexts (Mexico)
    (2017) Aedo Gajardo, Juan Angel; Faba, Paulina
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