Publication: Genealogía de los mecanismos de exclusión del cuidado y del trabajo reproductivo : hacia una defensa del cuidado como realidad política
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Lépinoux, Marie
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Escuela Internacional de Doctorado
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Galindo Hervás, Alfonso ; Prior Olmos, Ángel
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Universidad de Murcia
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Esta tesis parte de tres conceptos interconectados: immunitas, communitas y cuidado. Immunitas designa la lógica según la cual la política moderna protege la vida aislándola y excluyendo la vulnerabilidad compartida. Communitas se entiende como lo opuesto, describe apertura y estar-en-común. Desde aquí se busca elaborar una alternativa a la biopolítica foucaultiana que, según Esposito, enfatizó principalmente su dimensión negativa. La alternativa propuesta se sustenta en principios democráticos, así como en el cuidado mutuo y la interdependencia.Para ello, se deconstruyen las estructuras políticas, filosóficas y ontológicas de Occidente. A partir de Foucault, Esposito, Arendt y Federici se examinan los mecanismos que han contribuido a la exclusión del trabajo reproductivo y del oíkos, elementos necesarios para comprender el lugar del cuidado en la esfera política. El argumento central sostiene que dicha exclusión no es accidental, sino el resultado de una estructura política orientada a mantener el trabajo reproductivo fuera del reconocimiento público. Al trazar esta genealogía, se busca articular una biopolítica afirmativa del cuidado que permita pensar formas de vida y de subjetividad relacionales y comunitarias, en contraste con la figura neoliberal del empresario de sí, caracterizada por el aislamiento y el desgaste, sin posibilidad de ser sostenido por el sistema.Se incorpora también la lectura de la vita activa de Arendt, especialmente el concepto de labor, junto con la noción de acumulación originaria y la persecución de las brujas desarrollada por Federici, para indagar cómo el cuidado ha sido relegado por no considerarse económicamente productivo. Así, el Estado moderno y sus instituciones se configuran a partir de la lógica inmunitaria que aísla la vida. Esta opacidad, asociada a la razón de Estado y a la gubernamentalidad neoliberal, produce lo que aquí se denomina no-cuidado: una forma de cuidado que promueve la autonomía para incrementar la productividad, pero que deja a los sujetos solos y responsables, en términos físicos, psicológicos y económicos, de su propio sostenimiento.En esta línea, la investigación se orienta a promover una crítica que permita imaginar un marco institucional, democrático y común fundado en el cuidado, la reciprocidad y la vulnerabilidad.
This thesis is grounded in three interconnected concepts: immunitas, communitas, and care. Immunitas refers to the logic by which modern politics protects life through the isolation and exclusion of shared vulnerability. Communitas is understood as the opposite; it describes openness and being-in-common. From this starting point, the research aims to develop an alternative to Foucauldian biopolitics, which, according to Esposito, has remained primarily focused on its negative dimension. The proposed alternative is based on democratic principles, mutual care, and interdependence.To that end, the thesis deconstructs the political, philosophical, and ontological structures of the Western tradition. Drawing on Foucault, Esposito, Arendt, and Federici, it examines the mechanisms through which reproductive labour and the oíkos have been excluded, which is essential for understanding the place of care within the political sphere. The central argument is that this exclusion is not accidental, but the result of a political structure designed to keep reproductive labour outside public recognition. By tracing this genealogy, the thesis aims to articulate an affirmative biopolitics of care that enables forms of life and subjectivity oriented toward relationality and community, in contrast to the neoliberal figure of the self-entrepreneur, marked by isolation and exhaustion, without the possibility of being supported by the system.The reading of Arendt's vita activa, particularly the notion of labour, and Federici's analyses of primitive accumulation and the persecution of women accused of witchcraft, further illuminates how care has been marginalised for not being considered economically productive. Thus, the modern state and its institutions are shaped by an immunitary logic that isolates life. This opacity, together with the reason of state and neoliberal governmental rationality, produces what is here called non-care: a form of care that promotes autonomy to increase productivity while leaving individuals physically, psychologically, and economically responsible for their own maintenance.In this sense, the research aims to contribute to the development of an institutional, democratic, and inclusive framework grounded in care, reciprocity, and vulnerability.
This thesis is grounded in three interconnected concepts: immunitas, communitas, and care. Immunitas refers to the logic by which modern politics protects life through the isolation and exclusion of shared vulnerability. Communitas is understood as the opposite; it describes openness and being-in-common. From this starting point, the research aims to develop an alternative to Foucauldian biopolitics, which, according to Esposito, has remained primarily focused on its negative dimension. The proposed alternative is based on democratic principles, mutual care, and interdependence.To that end, the thesis deconstructs the political, philosophical, and ontological structures of the Western tradition. Drawing on Foucault, Esposito, Arendt, and Federici, it examines the mechanisms through which reproductive labour and the oíkos have been excluded, which is essential for understanding the place of care within the political sphere. The central argument is that this exclusion is not accidental, but the result of a political structure designed to keep reproductive labour outside public recognition. By tracing this genealogy, the thesis aims to articulate an affirmative biopolitics of care that enables forms of life and subjectivity oriented toward relationality and community, in contrast to the neoliberal figure of the self-entrepreneur, marked by isolation and exhaustion, without the possibility of being supported by the system.The reading of Arendt's vita activa, particularly the notion of labour, and Federici's analyses of primitive accumulation and the persecution of women accused of witchcraft, further illuminates how care has been marginalised for not being considered economically productive. Thus, the modern state and its institutions are shaped by an immunitary logic that isolates life. This opacity, together with the reason of state and neoliberal governmental rationality, produces what is here called non-care: a form of care that promotes autonomy to increase productivity while leaving individuals physically, psychologically, and economically responsible for their own maintenance.In this sense, the research aims to contribute to the development of an institutional, democratic, and inclusive framework grounded in care, reciprocity, and vulnerability.
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