Ritual, Rumor and Corruption in the Constitution of Polity in Modern Mexico

Lomnitz, Claudio

doi:10.1525/jlca.1995.1.1.20

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“…We see the importance of the politics of interest in the political science of corporatism and clientelism, for example; also in academic and popular discussions of voting behaviour or false consciousness, or in our sense that political parties represent (or should represent) different interest groups. 2 Even in comparative political studies of processes like clientelism that acknowledge the importance of kin groups in political networks, there is often an underlying assumption of utilitarian motivation (Auyero 2001;Levitsky 2003;Lomnitz 1995). Yet it has also long been acknowledged, certainly among anthropologists, that the instrumental aspects of politics are actually only a fairly limited part of any story, and that interest-based understandings will only go so far.…”

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A ‘kinship anthropology of politics’? Interest, the collective self, and kinship in Argentine unions★

Lazar

2018

Royal Anthropological Inst

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In this article I argue for a kinship anthropology of politics, understood as a focus on the day‐to‐day imbrications of kinship and politics in a given political space, and the implications of that for the construction of political subjects. I describe kinship within shop‐floor‐level trade union delegations of state employees in Argentina in three different ways: first, languages of kinship mobilized to describe political allegiance and dispositions, especially inheritance; second, family connections in recruitment and activism; and, third, practices of kinning as relatedness. The combination of these three kinship modes creates the union as kin group, and enables it to act on the world politically in order to transform it.

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A ‘kinship anthropology of politics’? Interest, the collective self, and kinship in Argentine unions★

Lazar

2018

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…Claudio Lomnitz (1995) has argued that, in Mexico, rumor and ritual are key spaces of expression due to a national public sphere that lacks widespread respectability. Following this, Rihan Yeh argues that while the “bourgeois‐type” public sphere may be a fetish, nonexistent anywhere in practice, it exerts a powerful hold over the middle‐class imaginary, where it vies—always unevenly—with the “hearsay public” (2012).…”

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Criminalization through Complicity: (Not) Reporting Crime in Mexico City

Hayden

2020

PoLAR

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In contemporary Mexico, the ideal of citizen responsibility and cooperation with authorities in crime prevention coexists with a widespread mistrust and disillusionment with the state. In this context, 90 percent of crimes go unreported to the police, a statistic that is a concern not only for law enforcement authorities but also for citizens who frequently comment that reporting is an ideal, even if few do so. Moving beyond a discussion of why people do or do not report crime, this article analyzes metapragmatic talk about (non)reporting in Mexico City's largest food market, La Central de Abasto. It shows such talk to be socially productive in the constitution of unequal publics. Merchants, workers, and authorities draw on and reproduce a language ideology in which the difficult‐to‐execute bureaucratic practice of reporting crime indexes proper citizenship even as forms of speech coded as silence or rumor index complicity with criminality. An attention to the metapragmatics of the crime report can thus expand understandings of contemporary processes of criminalization and its relationship to the constitution of unequal publics.

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“…Continual circulation of this knowledge is contingent on those responsible for translating and passing on this knowledge considering it to be valid. To some, the trustworthiness may lie in quantitative or statistical parameters (Porter 1995); to others, it could be linked to the source of transmission (Lomnitz 1995). Indeed, official statistics may be seen as credible by some, the opposite by others (Mathews 2008).…”

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Prognosis: visions of environmental futures

Mathews

Barnes

2016

Royal Anthropological Inst

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While prognoses about the future are as old as human society, this special issue argues that the proliferation of new ways of modelling, planning, and interpolating the future of resources and environments is an increasing feature of contemporary environmental politics. In our introduction, we draw out two dimensions to this prognostic politics: first, the processes of making predictions about the future; and second, the movement of these predictions through the unstable and messy institutions that act upon the future in the present. We argue that new regimes of environmental forecasting and contests over these prognoses are giving rise to new forms of nature, framings of time and space, and modes of politics.

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Ritual, Rumor and Corruption in the Constitution of Polity in Modern Mexico

Cited by 84 publications

References 12 publications

A ‘kinship anthropology of politics’? Interest, the collective self, and kinship in Argentine unions★

A ‘kinship anthropology of politics’? Interest, the collective self, and kinship in Argentine unions★

Criminalization through Complicity: (Not) Reporting Crime in Mexico City

Prognosis: visions of environmental futures

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