Abstract

ERNESTO GONZALEZ, Ricardo Carlos  and  NATERAS-DOMINGUEZ, Alfredo. Necroadministration and youth: prison-based annihilation in El Salvador. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2023, vol.21, n.1, pp.1-20.  Epub Apr 12, 2023. ISSN 1692-715X.  https://doi.org/10.11600/rlcsnj.21.1.5656.

Acts of institutional violence in El Salvador have involved annihilations, executions, confinements and precarization of the lives of young people who identify as members of groups such as the Mara Salvatrucha and the Barrio 18 gang. However, the crudest examples of this state-sponsored violence have occurred in penitentiary spaces where the so-called necroadministration approach is used in all institutional mechanisms. with the goal of elucidating its continuum in the consolidation of necropolicies by the State, we carry out a documentary review of mediate coverage regarding the declaration of the State of Exception and aggravation of human rights violations in prisons in El Salvador. The analysis of these media reports is articulated with categories including necropolitics, social oblivionabandonment and festival of violence.

Keywords : Necropolitics; youth; Mara Salvatrucha; Barrio 18.

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