Documenting Violence In Calderons Mexico

Author : Jessica Wax-Edwards
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855663643
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Documenting Violence in Calderón's Mexico written by Jessica Wax-Edwards and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mexico, during the presidency of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) and as a direct result of his 'war' on drugs, at least 60,000 people were killed, tens of thousands were 'disappeared' and countless more were subjected to kidnapping and sexual violence. This book analyses how artists and filmmakers, alongside affected citizens, attempted to navigate, articulate and contend with this unparalleled escalation in brutality. In Mexico, during the presidency of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) and as a direct result of his 'war' on drugs, at least 60,000 people were killed, tens of thousands were 'disappeared' and countless more were subjected to kidnapping and sexual violence. This book analyses how artists and filmmakers, alongside affected citizens, attempted to navigate, articulate and contend with this unparalleled escalation in brutality. The texts studied here provide a critical visual archive of this first phase in the drug war and show how artists including Pedro Pardo, Fernando Brito, Mónica González and Natalia Almada attempted to challenge official narratives, foster emerging nodes of resistance and seek justice for citizens. Bringing together works of photography, photojournalism, documentary and short fiction cinema, the book argues for the vital role of cultural production in documenting institutional corruption, human rights abuses and narco-related violence in Mexican society and providing a space to grieve and remember the victims. As Mexico's socio-political landscape continues to deteriorate, the book shows how its visual cultural legacy provides a means of understanding and responding to the violence.

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Büchner-Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3963178523
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War in Film written by Frank Jacob and published by Büchner-Verlag. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human experience of war is not only remembered by societies through memorials, but also through the depiction of wars and important battles of respective national histories on screen. Very often, the image presented is related to existent semiotics, and the respective sign systems determine the image of heroic actions and violence on the screen. The present volume provides a deeper insight into the forces at play when war films are presented on the big screen and intends to show why and how violent conflicts often have an afterlife as visual media as well.

Author : George W. Grayson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351505505
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico written by George W. Grayson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Mexico was named an Outstanding Academic Title of 2010 by Choice Magazine.Bloodshed connected with Mexican drug cartels, how they emerged, and their impact on the United States is the subject of this frightening book. Savage narcotics-related decapitations, castrations, and other murders have destroyed tourism in many Mexican communities and such savagery is now cascading across the border into the United States. Grayson explores how this spiral of violence emerged in Mexico, its impact on the country and its northern neighbor, and the prospects for managing it.Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ruled in Tammany Hall fashion for seventy-nine years before losing the presidency in 2000 to the center-right National Action Party (PAN). Grayson focuses on drug wars, prohibition, corruption, and other antecedents that occurred during the PRI's hegemony. He illuminates the diaspora of drug cartels and their fragmentation, analyzes the emergence of new gangs, sets forth President Felipe Calderi?1/2n's strategy against vicious criminal organizations, and assesses its relative success. Grayson reviews the effect of narcotics-focused issues in U.S.-Mexican relations. He considers the possibility that Mexico may become a failed state, as feared by opinion-leaders, even as it pursues an aggressive but thus far unsuccessful crusade against the importation, processing, and sale of illegal substances.Becoming a failed state involves two dimensions of state power: its scope, or the different functions and goals taken on by governments, and its strength, or the government's ability to plan and execute policies. The Mexican state boasts an extensive scope evidenced by its monopoly over the petroleum industry, its role as the major supplier of electricity, its financing of public education, its numerous retirement and health-care programs, its control of public universities, and its dominance

Author : Christopher Paul
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833084410
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico Is Not Colombia written by Christopher Paul and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the scope of the threat they pose to Mexico’s security, violent drug-trafficking organizations are not well understood, and optimal strategies to combat them have not been identified. While there is no perfectly analogous case from history, Mexico stands to benefit from historical lessons and efforts that were correlated with improvement in countries facing similar challenges related to violence and corruption.

Author : Maurice Rafael Magaña
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520344618
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cartographies of Youth Resistance written by Maurice Rafael Magaña and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaña considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcultures from hip-hop to punk and adopt creative organizing practices to create meaningful channels of participation in local social and political life. In the process, young people remake urban space and construct new identities in ways that directly challenge elite visions of their city and essentialist notions of what it means to be indigenous in the contemporary era. Cartographies of Youth Resistance is essential reading for students and scholars interested in youth politics and culture in Mexico, social movements, urban studies, and migration.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781422398968
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drug Control: U.S. Assistance has Helped Mexican Counternarcotics Efforts, but the Flow of Illicit Drugs into the United States Remains High written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gero Bauer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040001386
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Un-Mapping the Global South written by Gero Bauer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south. Instead of adding to the debates about how to properly define the "global south" as such, it aims at emphasising concrete experiences and accounts of (post-)colonial dislocation and disidentification as both a starting point and linchpin for the subsequent exploration. It brings into conversation theories and interrogations of the "global south" with specific local studies, without presenting them as the romanticised "other" or as "non-western" narratives. As a bold initiation of future conversations on issues that both directly and indirectly affect ideas about the global south, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of critical theory, literary and cultural studies, and global south studies.

Author : Rodolfo F. Acuña Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313087830
Total Pages : 1242 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the U.S. Latino Experience [3 volumes] written by Rodolfo F. Acuña Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and experiences of the diverse groups labeled Latinos in this country are abundantly documented in this major new collection. From the Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1803 to remembrances of life on the frontier, to the Young Lords platform of 1969, to a discussion of Latinos and the war on Iraq today, this 3-volume collection showcases more than 400 crucial primary documents from and concerning the major Latino groups in the United States. Sources include letters, memoirs, speeches, articles, essays, interviews, treaties, government reports, testimony, and more. The voices include whites as well as Latinos, prominent and obscure, and Americans as well as foreigners. The bulk of the primary documents concern Mexico and the United States and Mexican Americans, who paved the way for immigrants from Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Central and South America to come. The scope also includes primary documents pertaining to events in Latin American and Caribbean history that have had an impact on these groups. Each primary document has a short introduction, placing it in historical and cultural context. An introduction that gives an historical overview, a chronology, a selected bibliography chock full of useful websites, and a set index provide added value. Sample documents: memoirs of early Texas, commentary by a Mexican diplomat on the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo of 1848, essay on the social condition of New Mexico in 1852, Cuban independence leader Jose Marti in New York on race (1894), El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez— a ballad about a Mexican who stood up to the Texas Rangers in 1901, excerpts from an autobiography by Ella Winter on school segregation in the 1930s, a Latino soldier's reminiscences of World War II, testimony from a Bracero worker in the 1950s, article on Cuban Miami in the 1960s, socioeconomic profile of Dominicans in the United States in 2000, interview with Subcomandante Marcos from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

Author : Ty Matejowsky
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781900582
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America written by Ty Matejowsky and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continues on-going presentation of highly engaging anthropological research. This title contains a range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists that explore from various critical perspectives. It addresses questions of how political economy is articulated through processes of consumption, production, and evolution.

Author : Laura Y. Calderón
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998819914
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organized Crime and Violence in Mexico written by Laura Y. Calderón and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: