Social programs as mechanisms of “unnoticed repression” in Argentina (2007-2019). An Analysis from the sensitivity Policies

Abstract

At least in the last 16 years the idea has spread that in Argentina politicization, social and political participation has grown, the repressive apparatus has been democratized and there has been an expansion of rights. The other side of this “representation” is, precisely, the negation of those attributes, demanding attention on the processes of repression, silencing and violation of rights. Based on the analysis of primary and secondary, quantitative and qualitative data, this work seeks to verify non-participation and non-politicization as extended social practices, to synthesize the massiveness of social policies as a way to construct sociabilities and to discuss, from the perspective of the subjects, the emotions that constitute the policies of the sensitivities associated with these two processes. We conclude that the “unnoticed repression” implied by dependence, individualism and self-centered consumption make physical repression a mechanism reserved for very specific moments and actors, regardless of whether or not it is important in its number.