Feminist nodes in the Chilean experience for rethinking over-security, justice and antipunitivism

Abstract

This article interrogates the relationship between justice and punishment from antipunitivist feminisms in the scenario of a growing security agenda. We propose to put in tension the punitive recognition as a way of making visible the diverse gender violence in the Chilean feminist movements of the last years. To this end, we analyse the problematic of the “safe space” as a place free of conflict, the experience of victimization as a mode of feminist subjectivation/identification; and we analyse how the security and justice agendas were translated into the recent unsuccessful constituent processes in Chile, especially in the transition from a feminist and plurinational Constitution proposal to a criminalizing and securitizing one.