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Revista Colombiana de Antropología
Print version ISSN 0486-6525On-line version ISSN 2539-472X
Abstract
ZENOBI, Diego. Suffering as a Value: Expertise and Commitment in the Economic Reparations to the Victims of an Argentinean “Tragedy”. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2021, vol.57, n.1, pp.71-97. Epub Dec 28, 2020. ISSN 0486-6525. https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472x.1312.
In recent decades, a proliferation of mechanisms for the redress of violence can be observed. They classify and model the condition of the victims. Here I state that there is a relationship between the purpose of these mechanisms and the expectations of the victims' lawyers who make their own moral evaluations of them. In this paper I analyze the requests for compensation made by those lawyers of the victims of a fire occurred in Argentina that left 194 dead and 1500 injured. I will show that the elaboration of these requests is closely connected with the expectations of justice of those legal experts committed to their struggle. I will show that just as devices make people, so do people make devices.
Keywords : reparations; victims; experts; Argentina; tragedy of Cromañón.