Ce que la loi fait aux victimes
Résumé
What law does to victims. The “woman-victim” figure construction by the Spanish law against gender violence
In 2004 the Spanish law on gender violence (called “law of holistic protection against gender violence”) has been approved. This text, based on a qualitative research on the judicial space created by this law, examines how its implementation – both in its more spectacular dimensions as well as in its more banal and ordinary ones – contributes to the production of a new figure on the Spanish social space: the “woman-victim”. This proposal is part of a larger research on the recent transformations of the social space of victims in Spain, which is animated by a double movement: it contains a crescent number of subjects and it gets more and more bureaucratized and normalized.
In 2004 the Spanish law on gender violence (called “law of holistic protection against gender violence”) has been approved. This text, based on a qualitative research on the judicial space created by this law, examines how its implementation – both in its more spectacular dimensions as well as in its more banal and ordinary ones – contributes to the production of a new figure on the Spanish social space: the “woman-victim”. This proposal is part of a larger research on the recent transformations of the social space of victims in Spain, which is animated by a double movement: it contains a crescent number of subjects and it gets more and more bureaucratized and normalized.
En Espagne, en 2004 la loi organique dite « des mesures de protection intégrale contre la violence de genre » (LOIVG) est votée. Cet article, basé sur une enquête qualitative dans l’espace judiciaire créé par cette loi, explore comment sa mise en œuvre, dans ses dimensions spectaculaires et dans ses dimensions les plus banales et ordinaires, contribue à la production d’un nouveau personnage sur la scène sociale espagnole, celui de la « femme-victime ». Cette recherche s’inscrit dans un cadre plus vaste, qui s’intéresse aux mouvements récents de transformation de l’espace social des victimes en Espagne. Un espace traversé aujourd’hui par un double mouvement : il inclut toujours plus de sujets, et il s’administre et se normalise toujours plus.