Seminário | GRUPO DE TRABALHO POLICREDOS

The vestiges of Spanish Colonialism. The techniques of sovereign massacres in Colombia

Edwin Rubio (CES)

14 de novembro de 2023, 15h00 (GMT)

Evento em formato digital

Moderadora: Júlia Garraio (CES)
 

Enquadramento

The central idea of this presentation relates to the legacies of Spanish colonialism and the juridical-biopolitical mechanism of the Inquisition in the configuration of massacres conducted by Colombian paramilitaries in the 1990s. Due to the paramilitaries’ level of territorial control, implementation of a legal procedural model, and political objective, I call this type of massacre a sovereign massacre. Therefore, the session reflects on the causes and procedures that led to the bare life of hundreds of victims in Colombia, contributing to historical memory processes. Secondly, it sheds new light on how the Colombian massacres were executed from a philosophical perspective; thirdly, this allows the establishment of a comparative study North-South Global concerning the practices of thanatopolitics.


Nota biográfica

Edwin Rubio Medina - Lawyer defending the Human Rights of the victims of State crimes during 2009-2013. Consultant of various indigenous peoples since 2014. Master’s in Human Rights and Democratization-Externado University-Carlos III of Madrid. Ph.D. in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies at the University of Coimbra-Centre for Social Studies (Portugal). Full-time professor of the Unisinú-Monteria Law program. Researcher classified by Minciencias-Colombia. Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Coimbra-Centre for Social Studies, he has completed internships at the Institute of Anthropological Research at UNAM and the Law & Philosophy Group at Pompeu Fabra University. His academic production is focused on International Law, decoloniality, indigenous law, history, and legal theory.

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