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HARVARD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY DISSERTATION DEFENSE
"Caged: Intimate Violence and the Search for Sovereignty at the Margins of the City"
Presented by John Isaac Blanco Heintz
Monday, April 25th 2016
4:15 p.m. in Tozzer 203
“Caged” is an ethnographic investigation of intimate partner violence in Usme, a peripheral district of Bogotá, Colombia, where 37% of women report having experienced physical violence by a partner and 80% report some form of controlling behavior. The purpose of this research has been to understand the exercise of this violence through the lives and positions of those who survive it, those who respond to it, and most of all those who commit it. What their experiences from the margins of the city illuminate is that in the intimate dynamics of violence—the perpetrations of it and the resistances against it—are reverberations of the same spatial inscriptions and social logics that have shaped relationships of power and control from the municipal to hemispheric scales. The intricate webs of contradiction and paradox that this produces are what have provided the apertures for engagement, as well as the means by which to appreciate the tensions that cut across, connect, and constitute these acts of violence. In the context of ever-expanding legal apparatuses to address these forms of abuse, these junctures have become sites of rethinking sovereign relationships and the spaces that they have created, how consciousness emerges from them, and they have raised new questions about the place of subversion and aspirations for transformation of the self and society.
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Upcoming Dissertation Defenses:
Friday, April 29th
Jason Silverstein
10:00 a.m. in Tozzer 203
Thursday, May 5th
Tilsa Ponce
10:30 a.m. in Tozzer 203
Friday, May 6th
Philip Cartelli
10:00 a.m. in Tozzer 203
Monday, May 9th
Darja Djordjevic
10:00 a.m. in Tozzer 203
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