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      BIOPOLITICS AND HOMO SACER IN A TORTURE CENTER IN CHILE * Translated title: BIOPOLÍTICA E HOMO SACER EM UM CENTRO DE TORTURA NO CHILE

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          This article explains how the concepts of Biopolitics and homo sacer contribute to the understanding of what happened in the Villa Grimaldi concentration camp and torture center during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, in Chile. Prisoners were humiliated and tortured, losing their condition as subjects of law. The reification process of the prisoners by sadist guards and agents was added to the impossibility of the victims to legally defend themselves in front of tribunals. The archaic Roman law figure of homo saceris perfectly applicable to explain the situation of the persons kept in clandestine concentration camps as Villa Grimaldi. The notion of superstes tormentorum (survivor of tortures) is also presented here for further discussion in order to refer to the complex and often painful process in which the ‘victims-survivors-witnesses’ of the horror of Villa Grimaldi and other similar spaces try to reinsert in society.

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          este artigo explica como os conceitos de Biopolítica e homo sacer contribuem para a compreensão do que aconteceu no campo de concentração e centro de tortura Villa Grimaldi, durante a ditadura do general Augusto Pinochet, no Chile. Os presos eram humilhados e torturados, perdendo sua condição de sujeitos de direito. O processo de reificação dos prisioneiros realizado pelos guardas e agentes sádicos somou-se à impossibilidade de as vítimas se defenderem legalmente diante dos tribunais. A figura arcaica romana do homo sacer é perfeitamente aplicável para explicar a situação das pessoas mantidas em campos de concentração clandestinos como Villa Grimaldi. A noção de superstes tormentorum (sobrevivente da tortura) é também apresentada aqui para uma discussão mais aprofundada, a fim de se referir ao processo complexo e doloroso em que as “testemunhas-vítimas-sobreviventes” do horror da Villa Grimaldi e outros espaços similares tentam se reinserir na sociedade.

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                rdgv
                Revista Direito GV
                Rev. direito GV
                Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de Direito (São Paulo )
                2317-6172
                June 2015
                : 11
                : 1
                : 257-276
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Universidad Alberto Hurtado Chile
                [2 ] University of Oxford United Kingdom
                [3 ] London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom
                [4 ] Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Chile
                Article
                S1808-24322015000100257
                10.1590/1808-2432201511
                4b33ce39-37f8-4dc4-8a0b-122fdd610159

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Self URI (journal page): http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=1808-2432&lng=en
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                General law
                Biopolitics,homo sacer,torture,military dictatorship,Villa Grimaldi,Biopolítica,tortura,ditadura militar

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