Love as a Collective Action by Adrian Scribano

Author:Adrian Scribano [Scribano, Adrian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Anthropology, Cultural & Social, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781000711561
Google: h3u9DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-11T04:59:12+00:00

3 Conclusions

In the previous chapter, we saw how in Mexico, filial love practices emerge as energies that contradict the value of the closed totality of their political economy of morality. In this chapter, we observed that Guatemala is a good example of how every political economy of morality generates historical ways of understanding the connection/disconnection between bodies and emotions. A first hermeneutic path that filial love practices allow is to observe the construction of the skin body in terms of the politics of the senses. In this direction, collective experiences against femicide (#NosDuelen56) express the changes in the listening, distances and proximity, and visibility of bodies that are marked by violence are again part of life after the inversion of subsidiary energy.

The punishment is visualized in the form of dramatic screaming through performance; violence is broken through drawing and colours, helplessness defied by marches and protests in the streets (Gabriela Barrios).

Also from another perspective are the workshops, the undertakings and the cooperation between them that produce different bodies’ movements in the case of the wives of public transport drivers.

As Herrera says regarding the uses of expressive resources:

The use of music, poetry, art, performances, plays, the creation of altars and the linking of political denunciation to Guatemalan traditions was recurrent. Concerts were held to raise funds for the families of the victims and the Batucada Feminista (musical group) participated in the different collective manifestations. For reasons of Holy Week or Major Week, the Bufo parade made floats denouncing what happened, in addition, immemorial rugs were made, the “Via Crucis de la Indignación” was carried out and the reincorporation of a Catholic procession was announced, specifically the image of Our Lady of Mercy of the Holy Burial of Calvary, which had not been on the streets for 75 years, to ask for clemency for the unprotected and forgotten children of Guatemala. Pope Francis expressed his condolences and denunciation of what happened in the Safe Home.

(Herrera, 2017, p. 154)

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