O agravo moral como impulsor da ação coletiva

Abstract

The objective of this article consists of showing that the sentiment of moral grievance, while it does not determine or completely explain collective action, does appear repeatedly as one of the arguments put forward by actors mobilized in the defense of their own judgments of what they consider to be just or unjust, in opposition to those acts or actors by whom they consider themselves to have been aggrieved, and from whom they demand restitution for the damage inflicted. Such was the case of the social movement that took place in Oaxaca (Mexico) in 2006: a conflict which began as a teachers’ protest and then turned into one of the most important organizational popular fronts of the new century in Mexico. In general terms, it proposes considering morality and the values that emanate therefrom, as well as human experience, to be significant elements for the understanding of collective action and of social movements.

Crimen y género como determinantes en las prácticas de tortura en México

“…Advertencia como las de Silva y Padilla (2022) y Nagan y Atkin (2001) cobran mayor relevancia con los resultados de este estudio porque abre la posibilidad de estar impulsando como sociedad nuevas facultades morales a los servidores públicos responsables de enfrentar la inseguridad pública para ejercer la tortura como medio de castigo y limpieza de quienes cometen los agravios más indignantes al cuerpo social. En ese sentido, a tortura es más parecida a una forma de linchamiento ante el agravio moral colectivo (Meneses, 2017), que un medio de control político y represión en las democracias.…”