Police violence: sexual political dehumanisation strategies used by Chilean gendered institutions

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dc.contributor.authorArensburg-Castelli, Svenska
dc.contributor.authorBarrientos-Delgado, Jaime
dc.contributor.authorAstudillo-Lizama, Pablo
dc.contributor.authorVenegas, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T22:14:25Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T22:14:25Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractIn Chile, the 'social outbreak' that began on 18th October 2019, closely questioned the transitional processes of the last 30 years. In the context of a neoliberal society crisis, political mobilisation could problematise the country's democratic statute. One of the phenomena most worrisome to observe was the confirmation of a police vocation which, far from banning human rights violations, exerted cruel and systematic violence against social mobilisations. This was not new. In the past 15 years, social irruptions resulting from environmental, university, mapuche, and workers' revindications had already experienced the police voracity that trampled corporalities and subjectivities, reaching dehumanising extremes. These events became the anteroom for the violent practices from spring 2019 onwards. From the various expressions of police violence, this paper explores the 'sexual political violence' aspect. This term encapsulates the inflicting of pain and suffering on a subject due to political motivations, via violence on the sexed body. The study 'Institutional violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transexual individuals: a systemic view' aroused interest in exploring police sexual political violence against LGBT collectives during mobilisations in 2019. Although direct physical violence is also present, this paper focuses on sexual political violence accompanied by psychological violence, insults, mockery, and threats of sexual suffering, thus highlighting the gendered aspects of this violence. Hence, evidence collected in this study makes it interesting to reflect on the presence of this violence and on how gender and sexuality concur with a disciplining strategy on the bodies that are driven back from the street.
dc.description.funderFundacion Friedrich Eber, Chile
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13504630.2021.1931093
dc.identifier.eissn1363-0296
dc.identifier.issn1350-4630
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2021.1931093
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/94480
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000670805800001
dc.issue.numero5
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final607
dc.pagina.inicio593
dc.revistaSocial identities
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectChile
dc.subjectpolice violence
dc.subjectgender
dc.subject.ods05 Gender Equality
dc.subject.ods16 Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
dc.subject.odspa05 Igualdad de género
dc.subject.odspa16 Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
dc.titlePolice violence: sexual political dehumanisation strategies used by Chilean gendered institutions
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen27
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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