Suffering as a value: Expertise and commitment in the economic reparations to the victims of an argentinean "Tragedy" El sufrimiento como valor: Expertise y compromiso en las reparaciones económicas a las víctimas de una "tragedia" argentina

ZENOBI, DIEGO

Revista Colombiana de Antropología

Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia

Lugar: Bogotá; Año: 2020 vol. 57 p. 71 - 97

0486-6525

In recent decades, a proliferation of mechanisms for the redress of violence can be observed. They classify and model the condition of the victims. Here I state that there is a relationship between the purpose of these mechanisms and the expectations of the victims´ lawyers who make their own moral evaluations of them. In this paper I analyze the requests for compensation made by those lawyers of the victims of a fire occurred in Argentina that left 194 dead and 1500 injured. I will show that the elaboration of these requests is closely connected with the expectations of justice of those legal experts committed to their struggle. I will show that just as devices make people, so do people make devices.