ABSTRACT

This article explores an episode of mass atrocity that took place in Colombia in 2002-2010 under the rule of Álvaro Uribe: the falsos positivos, a subset of extrajudicial killings carried out by state armed forces in exchange for monetary bonuses, holidays and/or promotions whose victims were more than 3000 poor and mostly male people. Drawing from Rita Segato's work, I address this event from a perspective that re-centres patriarchy and coloniality. I argue that the very possibility of the killings' occurrence, staging, symbolic function and scale, and the nearly zero empathy they generated in the general population, was the result of a historical implementation of ‘pedagogies of cruelty' that in the context of Colombia have successfully trained the urban classes into what I will denote ‘selective desensitisation'. As an extreme enactment of the ‘mandate of masculinity', these crimes constitute an event that entrenches the patriarchal order that underlies the modern-colonial nation state. Apart from providing an explanatory framework for an extraordinary example of lack of empathy for certain victims in the context of Colombia, I aim to expand Segato's concept of ‘pedagogies of cruelty’ so as to demonstrate its immense analytical potential in the current global political landscape.

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本文探讨大规模暴行的一个小插曲发生在哥伦比亚在2002-2010乌里韦治下：在falsos positivos，这是国家武装力量进行的法外处决的一部分，以换取金钱红利，假期和/或晋升，受害者是3000多名贫困人口，其中大多数是男性。我从丽塔·塞加托（Rita Segato）的作品中汲取灵感，以重新确立父权制和殖民主义为视角讨论了这一事件。我认为，杀戮的发生，分期，象征性功能和规模以及它们在普通民众中产生的几乎为零的同情心的可能性极高，这是哥伦比亚实施“残酷教育法”的历史结果。已经成功地将城市班级训练为我将称之为“选择性脱敏”的阶段。作为“男性气概”的极端体现，这些罪行构成了巩固现代殖民民族国家基础的父权制秩序的事件。除了为哥伦比亚背景下的某些受害者缺乏同情的非凡示例提供解释性框架外，我的目标是扩大Segato的``残酷教育法''概念，以展示其在当前全球政治格局中的巨大分析潜力。