Gabriel Acevedo ~ Detached and/or porous. A convergence of cultural and political perspectives in a publicly politicized case of child molestation in Peru.

ABSTRACT

This thesis stems from the experience of reporting, between 2017 and 2019, a case of sexual abuse in a school in Lima, Peru, in the 1980s, to suggest that its ideal channeling must go through the articulation of perspectives from, on the one hand, cultural perspectives such as Lauren Berlant’s focus on affect and, on the other, political analysis such by Pierre Rosanvallon and Latin American political scientists who pay attention to the complex feedback relation between political representatives and citizenry. As the case demonstrates, despite some friction between these perspectives from the theoretical point of view, in the practice of justice and in the dynamics of politics, we rather observe their convergence.