Abstract

MONTANEZ FIERRO, Sylvia. Recognition and labour-related body suffering. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2016, vol.6, n.2, pp.29-47. ISSN 1688-7026.

This text provides insight on the issues of recognition and work in present day society, with an emphasis on the relationship between recognition and suffering caused by work, as well as how this impacts on people's bodies. We live in a time of uncertainty and within this state of outdated conditions we are still unaware of what will substitute them. Those lines of thought that depicted confident individuals, able to find themselves, apparently satisfied in the realisation of their work, and the possibility of existing within an organic world, which is coherent and intends to achieve order and progress, conceal the mass of fury and fear that hides behind civilising processes. The linear narrative that supported the ideal of having one safe place in the world has suddenly disappeared. However, this does not necessarily amount to a catastrophe. On the contrary, it may well imply new and different ways of inhabiting the world. The human body, our bodies, exist within a way of life, within a world governed by practical rules; they constitute and give shape to those practices. The human body is transformed and restructured by the conditions in which it inhabits the world. This text follows the experience of some workshops involving socially vulnerable young people aged 18-29 (members of two work crews that perform cleaning and maintenance work in Montevideo, as part of socio-educational and labour agreements), their manifestations and expressions, and their reflections on how they experience their own bodies.

Keywords : trabajo; reconocimiento; cuerpos.

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