Wars and politics of bodies

Abstract

Understanding that wars are phenomena that tend to spread in the whole of society, from the observation of new forms in which the wars in the twenty‐first century look for signs of the reconfiguration of bodies from specific practices that differentially reconstituted corporeality. The underlying idea is the presence in the world today, with strong anti‐modern tendencies, expressed most clearly in the process of war. In this context we analyze primarily the dissolution of the modern soldier‐citizen complex, using as indicators the use of torture as a weapon of war, the emergence of private armies (PMCs) and the intensive use of chemical stimulants for fighters. As a result, there is an incipient process of rupture of humanity, whose expression regulation is the criminal law of the enemy.

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