Profiting From Pablo: Victimhood and Commercialism in A Global Society

Goyes, David Rodríguez; Franko, Katja

doi:10.1093/bjc/azab078

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“…This is particularly pertinent to issues of collective memory and cultural trauma. Since truth-telling and collective memory are extremely important to them, our interviewees feel greatly affected by the commercialisation of Medellín's violence by the global entertainment industry (Goyes and Franko, 2021). McEvoy and McConnachie (2013: 496) point out that giving victims a voice is a central element in achieving justice in postconflict settings.…”

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“…Traumatic memories often had a sensory association such as the noise of ambulances and bombs exploding, the smell of blood and corpses on the streets (Goyes and Franko, 2021).…”

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“…The criminal justice system there was severely damaged by the onslaught of cartel violence, while in the last twenty years truth-telling has to a large extent been taken over by the global entertainment industry. We have written elsewhere about the large-scale commercialisation of the violence in Medellín, to be seen, for example, in the popular Netflix series Narcos, and about the distress and anxiety this has caused for those affected by it (Goyes and Franko, 2021).…”

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Drug Violence, War-Crime Distinction, and Hierarchies of Victimhood

Franko

Goyes

2022

Social & Legal Studies

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Issues related to victimhood are central to transitional justice and international criminal justice. However, processes of transitional justice do not usually include victims of drug-related violence, despite the fact that in several Latin American countries deaths caused by cartel violence easily meet criteria of civil war. This article's central argument is that distinctions between victims of war and victims of what is often termed conventional crime are of great importance to notions of legitimate victimhood in transitional contexts. Taking Colombia's Victims’ Law (2011) as a case study, we argue that the binary distinction between war and crime fails to address the needs of victims of mass drug violence and creates a hierarchy among victims. This has important symbolic, legal and material implications for those who find themselves in the less favoured category. Victims of drug related violence struggle to access justice and to make their voices heard in public discourses about violence. We argue that the current understanding of mass drug violence as ‘conventional crime’ represents a Northern perspective on violence, which can be counter-productive when used uncritically in Southern contexts.

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“…Traumatic memories often had a sensory association such as the noise of ambulances and bombs exploding, the smell of blood and corpses on the streets (Goyes and Franko, 2021).…”

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Drug Violence, War-Crime Distinction, and Hierarchies of Victimhood

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Goyes

2022

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“…19 19 See Budó et al. (2022), Goyes and South (2017), Goyes and Franko (2022) and Franko and Goyes (2023). …”

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Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda

Atiles

2023

Sociology Compass

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The scholarship on crimes of the powerful encompasses a critical examination of social harms, and crimes perpetrated by privately or publicly operated businesses and corporations, the state, international organizations, elites, as well as the state‐mediated administrative and political responses to these crimes. Going beyond state‐centric definitions of crime and deviance, this scholarship emphasizes studying power and the harmful and criminogenic operations of the neoliberal‐capitalism. However, this scholarship has overlooked the systemic examination of these crimes in the Global South, Latin America and the Caribbean, and their impact on racialized, gendered, and other marginalized communities. This article aims to contribute to this scholarship by providing an overview of the current developments in the scholarship on crimes of the powerful and proposing some future research areas for Latin America and the Caribbean. Thus, the article aims to demonstrate that the Latin American and Caribbean experiences with crimes of the powerful can expand our understanding of the social harms generated by powerful organizations and actors and magnify the analytical and methodological reach of this critical scholarship.

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