Victims and Counter-Victims in Contemporary Mexico

Tarica, Estelle

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“…They also provide places to engage in rituals of mourning that mark an end to the domination over the bodies of the victims by others. Boudreaux (2016, 396) also shows that activist interventions such as the graffiti memorials in Juarez demonstrate publicly that the victims' lives had meaning and are grievable, and can also invite reflections on the social and political conditions that caused the death or disappearance (see also Tarica 2015).…”

Section: The Politics Of Timementioning

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“…Bold, Knowles, and Leach (2002, 130) have shown how commemorative individualization can stand in the way, to the extent that sometimes "the process of active countermemorializing must involve the repression of individualized experience … together with the claims to unique and exceptional status." Tarica (2015) also makes this point regarding the efforts to bestow dignity and agency on the victims of the war on drugs in the Mexican case. While the Comité 68's efforts focused on making the state-sponsored memorial more tangible by adding names and dates, Beltrán's aim was to counter the state's commemorative message by transcending the single instance at the New's Divine nightclub.…”

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Memory Activism and Mexico’s War on Drugs: Countermonuments, Resistance, and the Politics of Time

Alonso

Nienass

2021

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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The widespread violence in Mexico by state and nonstate actors since the government launched a military strategy against drug cartels in 2006 has generated demands for justice, including spaces of mourning and commemoration that recognize hundreds of thousands of Mexican nationals and migrants from other countries who have been killed or disappeared. Creating memorial spaces for ongoing forms of violence whose perpetrators and victims are hard to define has proven difficult from a bureaucratic, political, and aesthetic perspective. This article examines and contrasts three commemorative and transformative memorial interventions to show that in a context that lacks a clear transition and access to justice, memory activists respond to the state in a playing field that is not simply concerned with a politics of memory—who gets to decide how to remember the past—but with delineating the past from both the present and the future in the first place: a politics of time.

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Section: The Politics Of Timementioning

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Section: Memorial New's Divinementioning

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Memory Activism and Mexico’s War on Drugs: Countermonuments, Resistance, and the Politics of Time

Alonso

Nienass

2021

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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“…The Caravan's pursuit of a politics of visibility is an example of the fact that "recent Mexican history has witnessed the most explicit expression and dissemination of acts of mourning undertaken by different sectors of society as well as individuals" (Diéguez, 2015: 85). Victims of violence now occupy a central place in debates over the current crisis in Mexico (Tarica, 2015), and they include the families of the missing, unable to rest or regain peace of mind. In this regard, the presence of the members of the Caravan on Mexican soil is associated with a politics of mourning that, in addition to making the victims' pain visible, is accompanied by demands for truth and justice.…”

Section: A Politics Of Visibility: Maternal Activism Repertoires and mentioning

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Making Absence Visible: The Caravan of Central American Mothers in Search of Disappeared Migrants

Hernández¹

2017

Latin American Perspectives

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The touring model employed by the Caravan of Central American Mothers in search of disappeared migrants in transit through Mexico creates processes of political empowerment for poor, indigenous peasant women who have no previous experience as activists and human rights defenders. Interviews and participant observation with members and organizers of the ninth caravan (held in December 2013) reveal three key moments that anchor the mothers’ transformation into political subjects and human rights activists: the creation of a collective identity based on maternal activism, the forging of an alliance with transnational human rights networks, and the emergence of a budding politics of visibility based on public acts of grieving that candidly lament the vulnerability of migrants caught in the drug war and border securitization across the hemisphere. El modelo itinerante de la Caravana de Madres Centroamericanas en busca de migrantes desaparecidos en tránsito por México genera procesos de empoderamiento político de mujeres pobres, indígenas, campesinas y sin experiencia como activistas y defensoras de derechos humanos. Entrevistas y observación participante con integrantes y organizadores de la novena Caravana (diciembre 2013) identifican tres momentos claves para entender la transformación de las madres en sujetos políticos y luchadoras sociales por la defensa de los derechos migrantes: la conformación de una identidad colectiva basada en el activismo maternal, la alianza con redes transnacionales de promoción y defensa de los derechos humanos, y la emergencia de una política de la visibilidad a partir de acciones de duelo público en respuesta a la vulnerabilidad de los migrantes en el contexto de la narcoguerra y la política hemisférica de securitización de fronteras.

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Thanatopolitics: Mutilating Autodefensas

Emerson

2019

Necropolitics

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Victims and Counter-Victims in Contemporary Mexico

Cited by 6 publications

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Memory Activism and Mexico’s War on Drugs: Countermonuments, Resistance, and the Politics of Time

Memory Activism and Mexico’s War on Drugs: Countermonuments, Resistance, and the Politics of Time

Making Absence Visible: The Caravan of Central American Mothers in Search of Disappeared Migrants

Thanatopolitics: Mutilating Autodefensas

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