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Cuerpos al límite: espacios y experiencias de marginalidad

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<strong>de</strong> Hermann Herlinghaus, en su texto Violence Without Guilt, diríamos que las prácticas <strong>de</strong>l<br />

sicariato constituyen<br />

…a symptom showing how market and profit-driven glob<strong>al</strong>ization, intersecting with a<br />

nation<strong>al</strong> crisis of state sovereignty, and the rise of the narcotics economy, have together<br />

disturbed any human consistency between the individu<strong>al</strong>, the soci<strong>al</strong>, and a publicly<br />

organized civilian space that might still lend the subject of mo<strong>de</strong>rnity its ethic<strong>al</strong> name.<br />

(130)<br />

At issue would be the intersection of two types of economy that cannot be reduced solely<br />

to their nation<strong>al</strong> sc<strong>al</strong>es: an economy of dispossession and unemployment and the soc<strong>al</strong>led<br />

narcotics economy. Related discussions would have to address the <strong>de</strong>stiny of huge<br />

segments of young people from the standpoint of abandonment in terms of soci<strong>al</strong><br />

inequ<strong>al</strong>ity and human regression, before scrutinizing their involvement in the drug wars.<br />

(106)<br />

Los relatos recogidos en No nacimos pa’semilla dan cuenta <strong>de</strong> prácticas que se generan<br />

en situaciones <strong>de</strong> margin<strong>al</strong>idad que, no obstante, no son ajenas a la dinámica económica que rige<br />

la sociedad latinoamericana contemporánea. Su carácter margin<strong>al</strong> se establece no porque sean<br />

exteriores <strong>al</strong> or<strong>de</strong>n soci<strong>al</strong> instituido 4<br />

pues la estructura misma <strong>de</strong>l capit<strong>al</strong>ismo produce masivas<br />

exclusiones, grupos sub<strong>al</strong>ternos que sobreviven en condiciones <strong>de</strong> extrema pobreza en los<br />

márgenes <strong>de</strong> las socieda<strong>de</strong>s mo<strong>de</strong>rnas. Con todo, es importante advertir que el c<strong>al</strong>ificativo <strong>de</strong><br />

margin<strong>al</strong> no <strong>al</strong>u<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong> forma exclusiva a la precaria situación económica <strong>de</strong> estas poblaciones. El<br />

<strong>de</strong>nominador apunta <strong>de</strong> manera preferente a un conjunto <strong>de</strong> prácticas que, <strong>de</strong>s<strong>de</strong> el discurso<br />

hegemónico, se conciben como extrañas a una norma instaurada y legitimada, <strong>de</strong> forma<br />

ciertamente arbitraria, por ese mismo discurso <strong>de</strong> la ofici<strong>al</strong>idad.<br />

4 Paradójicamente, estos sectores hacen parte <strong>de</strong>l sistema, están incluidos en él precisamente en función <strong>de</strong> la<br />

exclusión <strong>de</strong> la que son objeto. En este sentido, Herlinghaus se pregunta: “Are not vast disposable or later<strong>al</strong> parts of<br />

labor power inclu<strong>de</strong>d just by exclusion -being inclu<strong>de</strong>d in the neoliber<strong>al</strong> fabric by being exposed, to an increasing<br />

<strong>de</strong>gree, to the potenti<strong>al</strong>ity of either abrupt or <strong>de</strong>celerated <strong>de</strong>ath?” (Violence 121)<br />

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