BIOPOLITICS AND HOMO SACER IN A TORTURE CENTER IN CHILE *

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 condit...

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Main Author: Hugo Rojas Corral
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de Direito
Series:Revista Direito GV
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1808-24322015000100257&lng=en&tlng=en