Citizens at Risk: Power Supply Modernization, Burn Victims, and Biolegitimacy in Colombia
Between 1950 and 1980 the Colombian state institutions underwent an accelerated modernization process reflected on the bureaucratic reorganization and public policies that had a deep impact on society and shaped the future of the relationship between government and citizens. In this article we will...
| Autor Principal: | Clavijo Poveda, Jairo; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Profesor del Departamento de Antropología Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Miembro del grupo de investigación de Bioética, PUJ |
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| Otros Autores: | Venegas Carrillo, Juan Camilo; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana |
| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | spa |
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Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2016
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/univhumanistica/article/view/13898 |
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Between 1950 and 1980 the Colombian state institutions underwent an accelerated modernization process reflected on the bureaucratic reorganization and public policies that had a deep impact on society and shaped the future of the relationship between government and citizens. In this article we will focus our attention on a power supply policy related to cooking on gasoline-powered stoves which had a painful impact on Colombian society, as it led to over four decades of burn victims. The text covers a study with a topic and approach which articulate social and anthropological perspectives that make evident the physical and moral costs of the modernization of the nation. We aim to develop a critical approach based on the notion of device regarding a phenomenon that, until now, had not been studied in Colombia. For this purpose we carried out a qualitative analysis that had the press of the time, interviews with surviving actors, and statistical data as primary sources. |
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