INTERSECTIONALITIES THAT CONDEMN: COLONIAL GESTURES OF THE ARGENTINEAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges of intersectionality in the public policy-making process in Argentina, in order to think about the colonialism ingrained within State structures in general and its judicial system in particular. To that end, this proposal is based on the analysis of a legal process that in 2014 condemned to a life sentence a Bolivian migrant woman, indigenous (Quechua-speaker who do not understand Spanish), poor and a victim of violence, who spent more than one year in jail along with her baby accused of murdering her husband, without comprehending the legal process by which she was detained. This case, which gathers in a woman’s body different intersections of social inequalities, reveals the absence of public policies oriented to respond to these intersections.

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María Jose Magliano, CONICET y Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Doctora en Historia por la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Investigadora Adjunta del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) con lugar de trabajo en el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad (CIECS-CONICET y UNC). Profesora de la Escuela de Historia de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Posdoctorado en Ciencias Sociales en la Università degli Studi di Padova, Italia.

Norma Vanina Ferreccio, Universidad Nacional del Litoral - UNL

Doctora en Ciencias Sociales por la Università degli Studi di Padova, Italia. Profesora-investigadora de la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales y de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Docente de Teoría Criminológica I y Sociología de la Prisión en la Maestría en Criminología de la UNL. Integrante del Programa de investigación “Delito y Sociedad” que funciona en la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales de la UNL.

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2017-11-06

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No. 13 (2017)

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Background Articles

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