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Obedience by Pain: State Violence in Contexts of Social Protest (Bogotá, Colombia, 2019-2022)
Diana Giselle Osorio-Rozo
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, ColombiaHéctor Olarte-Cancino
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, ColombiaThis article derives from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Bogotá during the social protests that occurred between November 2019 and April 2022. It focuses on understanding the origins and dynamics of the violence employed by the state’s security forces in these instances of collective action. We argue that this violence, primarily exercised by police special units as a repressive apparatus of the state, cannot simply be explained as an undifferentiated form of domination that institutions resort to when their power is weakened. Instead, it refers to cultural meanings that enable, sustain, and validate it as a privileged way to address conflict… -
Silences and Official Truth: Silencing Operations in the Case of the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture in Chile
Daniela Mansilla Santelices
Universidad Alberto Hurtado, ChileOriana Bernasconi Ramírez
Universidad Alberto Hurtado, ChileThis article explores silence as a constitutive and constituent practice of the production of official and state truth regarding serious human rights violations, using the case of Chile as a starting point. We focus, in particular, on Chile’s National Commission on Political Prisoners and Torture (2003-2005), and its counterpart, the Advisory Commission for the Qualification of Disappeared Detainees, Political Executed, and Victims of Political Prisoners and Torture (2010-2011), whose objective was to qualify and repair the victims of the last Chilean civil military dictatorship (1973 and 1990). We discuss four silencing operations in which we identify the ways in which they relate and act in/with different artifacts and procedures of the Truth Commission (TC) device… -
The Limitless Zawiya and the Infinite Library. Rethinking the Epistemology of Contemporary Sufism and Digital Islamic Thought
Antonio de Diego González
Universidad de Málaga, SpainContemporary Sufism has not been untouched by the digital revolution. Tradition and modernity intersect in the spiritual and esoteric practices of thousands of Muslims in an increasingly globalized world. This convergence has significantly transformed the epistemological and social foundations of these practices and those who engage in them. This paper examines the digital revolution’s impact on one of the most popular branches of globalized Sufism, the tariqa Tijaniyya, from 2000 to 2020, exploring how it has shaped doctrinal, social, and spiritual discourse in contemporary Sufism…
