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

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...

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Publicado en:Latin American Research Review Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 353 - 371
Autores principales: Alonso, Alexandra Délano, Nienass, Benjamin
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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        Drug control
        Immigrants
        Access to justice
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      ab: 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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