Socio-demographic, psychiatric and legal characterisation of Colombian unimputable patients, 2000–2013

Escobar-Echavarría, Juliana; Molina-Osorio, Sergio Ignacio; Restrepo, Diana

doi:10.1016/j.rcpeng.2017.05.004

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“…Data related to the health of inmates is scant (Escobar-Echavarría et al 2017), revealing yet another form of silencing and erasure. Since the 1990s, subsequent neoliberal policies outsourced the services of health and nutrition for these populations, leaving for the Ministry of Health only the task of regulation, which does not include the supervision of the health of detainees.…”

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Avatars of colonial and liberal violences: the revelatory character of COVID-19 governance in Colombia

Fernández

Scauso

Stavrevska

2022

Third World Quarterly

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This article analyzes the institutionalized injustices faced by Indigenous populations and other "others" in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that the government's responses are rooted in a liberal philosophy that has historically sustained biases and inequalities through an exclusionary definition of citizenship. To analyze these issues, the article first concentrates on the broader epistemic assumptions of liberal citizenship and the ways in which they are connected to historical legacies in Colombia. Despite liberal claims of equality for all, the biases that emerge from these notions of citizenship lead towards political disempowering, silencing, erasure, and abandonment. Consequently, Indigenous peoples in Colombia have experienced institutionalized biases such as the prioritization of particular forms of participation, the exclusion of populations from rights, and the elevation of plans of development that aim to erase other ways of being. These biases were further reinforced by the governmental responses to the pandemic. Hence, the article analyzes the inequalities that have been exacerbated as a result of COVID-19 policies, showing their scope and depth, and establishing a discussion about injustices that might affect populations beyond the current context of Colombia.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%