“The state does not know the situation and needs of the people” is a prevalent notion in women who suffer violence and turn to the state searching justice and officials who work in the institution responsible for preventing, punishing, and responding to such violence. This article answers: what are the facts that lead to creating this notion about the state as “other” in women victims of violence and in officials who work in the state? Using the ethnographic methodology and concepts about violence against women, formation of the state and political neo-institutionalism, I analyse the functioning of the state in dealing with violence against women who live in the rural areas of Ayacucho and Huancavelica. This article concludes that the state policies to address violence against women have been designed based on urban population but above all with monolithic, homogeneous, and centr...

“The state does not know the situation and needs of the people” is a prevalent notion in women who suffer violence and turn to the state searching justice and officials who work in the institution responsible for preventing, punishing, and responding to such violence. This article answers: what are the facts that lead to creating this notion about the state as “other” in women victims of violence and in officials who work in the state? Using the ethnographic methodology and concepts about violence against women, formation of the state and political neo-institutionalism, I analyse the functioning of the state in dealing with violence against women who live in the rural areas of Ayacucho and Huancavelica. This article concludes that the state policies to address violence against women have been designed based on urban population but above all with monolithic, homogeneous, and centr...

“The state does not know the situation and needs of the people” is a prevalent notion in women who suffer violence and turn to the state searching justice and officials who work in the institution responsible for preventing, punishing, and responding to such violence. This article answers: what are the facts that lead to creating this notion about the state as “other” in women victims of violence and in officials who work in the state? Using the ethnographic methodology and concepts about violence against women, formation of the state and political neo-institutionalism, I analyse the functioning of the state in dealing with violence against women who live in the rural areas of Ayacucho and Huancavelica. This article concludes that the state policies to address violence against women have been designed based on urban population but above all with monolithic, homogeneous, and centr...

El Perú es un país diverso, pluricultural, multilingüe, democrático de derecho, donde el Estado tiene el deber de “promover el bienestar general que se fundamenta en la justicia y el desarrollo integral y equilibrado de la Nación” (Constitución Política del Perú, Titulo II, Capítulo I, Articulo 44). Sin embargo, los hechos nos muestran lo contrario, porque de acuerdo al Instituto Nacional de Estadística las regiones más pobres del Perú son Huancavelica, Apurímac, Ayacucho, Puno y Huánuco mientras las regiones que concentran menor población en situación de pobreza son Ica, Tumbes, Lima y Tacna; en términos generales, esto nos habla del desarrollo y prosperidad de la costa y la postergación del sur andino.1 La mayor parte de la población de Ayacucho vive en situaciones de pobreza, incluso desde la época colonial y republicana y como es lógico sus procesos sociales,...

El Perú es un país diverso, pluricultural, multilingüe, democrático de derecho, donde el Estado tiene el deber de “promover el bienestar general que se fundamenta en la justicia y el desarrollo integral y equilibrado de la Nación” (Constitución Política del Perú, Titulo II, Capítulo I, Articulo 44). Sin embargo, los hechos nos muestran lo contrario, porque de acuerdo al Instituto Nacional de Estadística las regiones más pobres del Perú son Huancavelica, Apurímac, Ayacucho, Puno y Huánuco mientras las regiones que concentran menor población en situación de pobreza son Ica, Tumbes, Lima y Tacna; en términos generales, esto nos habla del desarrollo y prosperidad de la costa y la postergación del sur andino.1 La mayor parte de la población de Ayacucho vive en situaciones de pobreza, incluso desde la época colonial y republicana y como es lógico sus procesos sociales,...