Significación de las violencias en la conformación de una política pública

Abstract

This paper addresses how the meanings given to violence influence the implementation of public policy. The ethnographic study was conducted in a center for care for men who have committed gender-based violence in a Patagonian city. In my daily work as a doctor, I encounter violence on a daily basis. I was interested in understanding why two neighbors fight to the point of injury, or why teenagers exchange punches outside school. But what I questioned most was why violence in these situations seemed necessary and why both the aggressor and the victim considered it normal. It didn't provide an alternative solution to the conflict. By delving deeper into the topic, other layers and approaches are discovered, and other ways of exercising violence emerge. The problem escalates, and violence appears everywhere, and that also confuses me. I wasn't concerned with the most explicit violence, such as police violence or war, but rather with violence that could have been avoided and was still practiced: everyday violence between individuals who know and care about each other.