Women, bodies and affectivities: intervening in violence, crisis and urgency

Abstract

This article was nourished and forged from work within a provincial ministry devoted to the accompaniment of women in situations of violence, in an area dedicated to crisis and emergency care.

Starting from this daily practice, we seek to build and identify ways of professional intervention, to return to the practice in a renewed and strengthened way. To this end, we position ourselves on the basis of the Praxiological Paradigm (Breilh, 2003) and Feminist Epistemology (Maffía, n.d.).

In order to approach the proposed objective, we take two axes: the Affective Turn (López, 2012) that invites to think those dynamics that go through the body, irreducible to the discourse; and on the other hand, to put the body as a way of thinking our profession and our daily life. Putting the body, to be able to reflect and approach other possible and necessary professional approaches.

We intend to transmit that for our professional practice, the word continues to have a fundamental role, since it impregnates with meaning the facts that occur in the body, but unfinished, when it is not incarnated. This process is completed and is only possible when it is done in conjunction with one another, in this particular case, the co-workers.