Las nuevas formas de la guerra y el cuerpo de las mujeres

Abstract

New wars, characterized by informality, unfold today in a liminal space that can be defined as parastatal because is controlled by armed corporations with the participation of state and nonstate military personnel. In that expanding sphere of parastatality, violence against women is not a collateral damage of war any more but it has become a strategic objective of this new war scenario. This article examines the historical transformations around the informalization of war and points at the centrality obtained by a “pedagogy of cruelty” against those who do not play the role of armed antagonists in the fighting - women and children.