Políticas públicas de empleo, cuerpos e interseccionalidad: reflexiones a partir de una experiencia etnográfica en San Carlos de Bariloche

Abstract

The article recovers the contributions of a previous analysis in which I address the effects of alterization resulting from the implementation of a public employment policy in San Carlos de Bariloche. Based on the ethnographic analysis of the itineraries traveled by people who travel through politics as “users”, I focus particularly on the ways in which the prescriptive and normative dimension of politics is specified on subjects and their bodies. Specifically, I analyze the practices (material and discursive) by which the management, modeling and production of both the ̈type ̈ employable subjects/bodies and their abject, the in-employable subjects/bodies are carried out. Finally, I reflect on the need for an in-depth review of the logic and practices that underpin these types of policies that reproduce and recreate old forms of inequality in a new way and on the contributions that anthropology can make in this regard. In view of this, the challenge of incorporating an intersectional perspective in the processes of both the evaluation of public policies and, fundamentally, of formulation and implementation, is envisaged, taking into account its potential to expand the margins of state readability and thus discontinue the (re)production of inequalities.