Event Highlights: Una conferenceia (en español) de Lina Meruane | Latin American Studies

Event Highlights: Una conferenceia (en español) de Lina Meruane

En esta charla, Lina Meruane rastrea, a través de textos canónicos y contemporáneos de la enfermedad, la emergencia histórica de un nuevo sujeto político que opera a la vez en el ámbito local y global: el del paciente impaciente que desconfía de diagnósticos conjeturales y tratamientos de dudosa efectividad, que pide explicaciones y segundas opiniones, que se informa y exige atenciones y cuidados individuales pero también comunitarios enarbolando el derecho humano a la salud que, tanto dentro como fuera de la nación de pertenencia, le confiere su “ciudadanía biológica”. Basándose en este concepto formulado por los teóricos Nikolas Rose y Carlos Novak, y desestimando recientes propuestas de Giorgio Agamben, Meruane valora el desobediente activismo informado de los impacientes.

Lina Meruane is a Chilean writer and scholar who teaches Latin American Cultures, Arts and Cultures in the Core Program and has taught a senior seminar entitled Pathological Citizenship at the Global Liberal Studies Program at NYU.

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