Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile

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201 Index Page numbers in bold refer to illustrations abandonment, 10, 52 “afterlife,” 125–26 agency collective, 143 constrained, 25–26, 38, 165 creativity as, 143 exercising of, 50–51, 59, 85–87, 102 sanación as, 126, 134–35 See also resilience Alcalde, M. Cristina, 25–26 Allende, Salvador, 13, 30, 79, 94, 112, 121, 123 Arendt, Hannah, 11 Bachelet, Michelle, 101, 151 Basu, Srimati, 19 Biehl, João, 9, 86, 176n4 Bolen, Jean Shinoda, 129–30, 182n5 Bourdieu, Pierre, 21 Bourgois, Philippe, 21 bureaucracy municipal, 93, 146 as obstacle, 60, 107 state, 58, 139, 152, 157, 161–63, 166–67 bureaucratization of the self, 54–55 care bureaucratic, 60, 139 contingent, 51, 93, 138–58, 162 as process, 12, 39, 166 See also care-seeking; ethic of care; forms of care care-seeking contexts for, 26, 28, 38, 55, 108 narratives of, 45, 60, 107, 116–20, 138 Catholic Church, 56, 98, 131, 180n3 citizenship, 18, 113, 120, 124, 140, 182n4 claiming, 25, 29, 55, 58, 82, 139, 143 defined, 15 disjunctive, 165 gendered, 53, 58, 68, 86–87, 128, 164–65 rights of, 16, 25, 29, 82, 86, 128, 161, 165 Civil Marriage Law (2004), 53, 56–57, 59, 73, 83, 103 class, 91, 175nn1–2, 177n16 inequality, 101, 102, 112, 124–25, 145 oppression based on, 94, 97, 99–101, 182n3 Concertación, 99–100, 106, 123–24 courts. See judicial system Das, Veena, 20, 125, 134, 176n4 DelVecchio Good, Mary-Jo, 12 divorce, 18, 56–62, 74–75, 82–83, 103, 121, 180n3. See also Civil Marriage Law (2004) dynamic nominalism, 23, 25 ethic of care, 163, 167, 178n19 feminist, 28, 143, 150, 157, 159–60 lack of, 38, 60, 139, 151 neoliberal, 27–28, 152, 157 202 Traumatic States ethic of care, continued pragmatic, 151–52 See also care ethnography ethics in, 34–37, 111, 170, 178n23 at Family Care, 28, 31–33 importance to public policy, 166–67 methodology, 28–36, 169–72 at Safe Space, 28–31, 144–45 value in studying suffering and violence, 12, 19, 24, 26, 99, 111 Family Care changes experienced, 146–50, 156–58 constraints on care, 92–94, 103–5 description, 28, 31–33, 173–74 lawyers, 72–74 therapy, 70, 89, 92–94 Family Treatment Center, 57–58, 59–60, 68, 143, 146, 180n5 Family Violence Law (1994), 17, 22, 38, 43, 46, 52, 55, 57, 81, 179n1 Family Violence Law (2005), 38, 46, 53, 55, 72, 73, 74, 181n10 Farmer, Paul, 20, 27 Fassin, Didier, 23–24, 182n6 femicide, 112, 161, 175n3, 176n8 feminism, 19, 31, 58, 113, 130, 146–47, 154 activism, 55–57, 144, 151 contrast with neoliberalism, 27–28, 150, 156–57 and democratic transition, 16–17, 26 politics, 97, 122–23, 140–44 See also ethic of care: feminist; SERNAM forms of care bureaucratic, 139, 162–63, 166 individualized, 28, 107 psychiatric, 107, 160 state, 16, 28, 37, 92, 162–63 gender codified in Chilean law, 12–13, 15, 96 equality, 16–17, 86, 112, 138, 143, 158, 165 expectations, 96–97, 117, 126, 131, 156 femininity, 13, 14–15, 96, 97–98, 121, 154, 157 ideologies, 17, 112–13, 116, 124, 145, 146, 177n16 masculinity, 13, 69–71, 115, 176n10 performances, 41, 87, 96, 97–98, 114, 126 socialization, 22, 113, 126, 127, 131 See also gender inequality; machismo gender inequality, 40, 102, 126, 132 embedded/institutionalized, 18, 46–47, 86, 96, 112 perspective on domestic violence, 20, 27, 29, 127–28, 135, 149– 50, 157 roots of, 31 See also gender: equality Gill, Lesley, 182n3 Hacking, Ian, 23 Hautzinger, Sarah J., 19 healing. See recovery; sanación Herman, Judith Lewis, 9 homosexuality, 110, 114, 128 Jenkins, Janis Hunter, 176n2 judicial assistance center, 59–64 judicial system, 22, 151, 152, 161–63, 170, 179n1, 179n5 clerks, 46, 50–51, 119, 120 courts, 19, 45–46, 47, 49, 58, 119, 120, 145 criminal court, 75, 77–78, 78–79, 80–81 experiences within, 38, 45–53, 54–88, 116–20, 139 family court, 53, 57, 61, 65–67, 71–72, 77–78, 81, 161, 181n10 judges, 46, 73, 80, 81, 145, 181n10 lawyers, 46, 50, 62–63, 64–65, 74, 81, 139 Index 203 police, 18, 19, 77, 117–18, 137–38, 139, 144, 180n1 prosecutors, 57, 72–77, 80–81, 152, 181n10 “time lags,” 49–50 Kleinman, Arthur, 36 Lazarus-Black, Mindie, 19, 47, 49–50 legal...