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Colombia Internacional
Print version ISSN 0121-5612
Abstract
BELLO URREGO, Alejandra del Rocío. Cruelty against LGBTIQ+ People and Sovereign Power in New Forms of Warfare. colomb.int. [online]. 2023, n.115, pp.113-137. Epub June 14, 2023. ISSN 0121-5612. https://doi.org/10.7440/colombiaint115.2023.05.
Objective/context:
Based on the Colombian case, an interpellation of the concept of sovereignty in contemporary critical political theory is proposed from a feminist, queer, and decolonial perspective through the analysis of the role of cruelty against LGBTIQ+ people in establishing a form of para-institutional sovereign power in neoliberal wars.
Methodology:
This theoretical research is supported by documentary analysis of the reports of the National Center of Historical Memory of Colombia.
Conclusions:
The colonial and cisheteropatriarchal circulation of cruelty is shown to be an essential element in installing a disciplinary power that affects society as a whole and establishes a specific form of sovereign power. In the neoliberal stage of capital, this form updates a government of bodies that distinguishes between citizenship and colonial subjects and is constitutive of the nation-state.
Originality:
Demonstrating this hypothesis has the consequence of unveiling a specific form of exercise of power that produces bodies through the establishment of what I call the government of suffering, which I define as control, rationalization, and administration of suffering. This form of power goes beyond the reading framework suggested by the paradigms of biopolitics and necropolitics; thus, to encompass this dimension of the political, I propose the concept ofpathospolitics, understood as the form of power that turns suffering into an object of government and is deployed through this government.
Keywords : cruelty; gender; neoliberalism; queer; sovereignty; war.