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Abstract

The main purpose of this essay is to explain the project Rights and Violences in Two State Policies in Puerto Rico: Forms of Subjectivation and Subjectivities. A second purpose, related to the first one, is to explain its methodology. The project objectives are: 1) Research the inclusion and exclusion of rights in two state policies: the Special Law Declaring a Fiscal Emergency, or Law 7, implemented between 2009 to 2011, and the strategy '‘Golpe al Punto‘‘ ("Hit the Point‘‘), instituted between 2009 to the present; 2) Analyze meanings on violence in the mentioned policies; 3) Synthesize potential subjectivations and subjectivities in the discursive analysis of the rights and violence. We propose a qualitative methodology guided by the study of Báez-Lebrón (2012). The methodology includes techniques of manifest (content) and latent (discourse) analysis exposed by Babble (1974). The discourse analysis of Babble (1974) is complemented with the approach of Wetherell and Potter (1996) and with adapted questions from Wodak and Meyer (2009).