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Feminist anthropologist Rita Segato's pbadion for conversation and "uncomfortable" thinking will be the protagonist of one of the cultural events of the year. For the third time in a row, the Buenos Aires International Book Fair will be inaugurated by a writer. Segato, who will speak at the opening of the 45th edition on Thursday 25 April at 6 pm in the Borges room, will succeed Claudia Piñeiro (2018) and Luisa Valenzuela (2017). "I am very honored by this invitation to the party of a country of readers like ours – a country in which someone can become famous for thinking – a country where imagination has not been defeated. ", said the author of the basic structures of violence and the counter-pedagogy of cruelty, after receiving the invitation of The Book Foundation, organizer of the Fair.

When Segato began working with convicted rape prisoners in Brasília Penitentiary in 1993, he felt that he would be acting in an exceptional situation. Since then, more than two decades ago, she has been studying the issue of violence against women, and in particular "crimes of power, domination, punishment", as she sees them. defined with exceptional lucidity. "Talking about gender-based violence with a judge – and I've included the most prestigious one we've had – comes down to talking about the issue with a public service employee, a physicist, a baker." Legal Operators Need to Understand that badual badault is not a matter of libido, but a matter of power, of control, of the masculinity mandate that dominates society and institutions, which is a mandate of power and cruelty, of insensitivity, training for lack of empathy, a training whose school is the woman's body, "the anthropologist told the journal recently in an interview with Mariana Carbajal.

The opening speech of the fair, which in this edition will have Barcelona as a guest city of honor and that will last until Monday, May 13, still raises great expectations. Segato is probably the most cited anthropologist and has most influenced the mobilization of women, an indispensable reference that is beginning to be read more and more. She was a professor in the Department of Anthropology of the University of Brasilia, in charge of interdisciplinary postgraduate courses in bioethics and human rights of the same university and visiting professor of various doctorates in universities Latin American. Last week, he inaugurated the Open Chair of Uncomfortable Thought at the National University of San Martín (Unsam). "We have threatened the nucleus of the construction of the powers.The virulent action that we undergo is to the measure of what we realized with the movement, the extent of the danger that we lead", warned the author of The war against women.