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Exercise of state power with LGBTIQ+ persons deprived of liberty in Ecuador. Human rights challenges from a Foucauldian perspective.

Authors

  • Juana Lucila Narvaez Universidad de Cuenca
  • Carlos Andrade Gúzman Universidad de Chile

Abstract

Interview with Juana Narvaez by Carlos Andrade.

In this interview we talk with Juana Narvaez, social worker from Ecuador and academic at the University of Cuenca, who shares her reflections on the power exercised by the State with persons deprived of liberty, particularly with LGBTIQ+ persons. LGBTIQ+ persons. In this interview, she shares the results of her research and intervention trajectory and outlines ways forward to improve the conditions of LGBTIQ+ persons.
towards improving the living conditions of this population from a human rights perspective.

Keywords:

Michel Foucault, prisión, sociedad disciplinaria, personas LGBTIQ .

Author Biographies

Juana Lucila Narvaez, Universidad de Cuenca

Juana Narvaez. PhD in Social Work, Master in Educational Management, Specialist in Gender and Development, Teacher-researcher at the University of Cuenca, Social activist, member of the Iberoamerican Network of intercultural and interdisciplinary studies.

E-mail: juana.narvaez@ucuenca.edu.ec

Carlos Andrade Gúzman, Universidad de Chile

PhD in Social Work, Boston College, USA and PhD in Social Work and Welfare Policies, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile. Academic of the Department of Social Work, Universidad de Chile.

E-mail: carlos.andrade@uchile.cl