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...
| Publicado en: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 353 - 371 |
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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