Introduction: Visual Culture and Violence in Contemporary Mexico

Noble, Andrea

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“…. who should also be worthy of defense, courage, mourning, and memory” and seek to make their victims “seen, heard, and felt by others.” They fight to reclaim their dead, their disappeared, and public spaces (Noble, 2015; Rivera Hernández, 2017; Sanjurjo, 2017: 126).…”

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“…Finally, I shall use “subversive necropower” to refer to the strategies activists use to reclaim ownership of their dead or disappeared. I label these strategies “necropower” both to compare them to corporate, criminal, and state necropower and to shed light on the way Mexico’s contemporary repertoires of collective action seem to build on a regional history of social movements that memorialized victims in public spaces (Noble, 2015; Rivera Hernández, 2017; Robben, 2007; Sanjurjo, 2017; Tilly, 1995; 2006).…”

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“…The surviving relatives’ grief and anger, in turn, are now driving the nation with repeated public displays of mourning that shame state institutions and corporations alike in a stubborn pursuit of justice for the victims. On the streets of Polanco they deploy not only a politics of visibility but also a strategic evocation of shared and shareable emotions such as grief, anger, pain, and hope (Noble, 2015; Rivera Hernández, 2017; Sanjurjo, 2017) as they claim their right to have their dead husbands brought back for a final farewell.…”

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“…Only the rare case ever results in punishment for the perpetrators (Human Rights Watch, 2013). Indeed, the police and the armed forces have been criticized for their involvement in the drug trade and serious human rights violations (GIEI, 2015; Marcial, 2015; Noble, 2015; Pereyra, 2012). This is what the relatives of Mexico’s many victims cannot accept.…”

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Contesting Mexico’s Necropolitics: Necrogovernance and Subversive Necropower in Two Cases

Ohlson¹

2020

Latin American Perspectives

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Mexico’s contentious necropolitics see different stakeholders involved in political struggles for control over the dead. The families of victims of state and corporate violence protest state necrogovernance and corporate necropower, the power to dictate the circumstances of citizens’ and workers’ lives and deaths. Two case studies show how the state and corporations deploy the criminal technique of disappearing bodies as a means of social control and rendering workers expendable and sometimes killable. Social movements counter this with a determined struggle to restore a sense of worth to the victims of violence through public mourning. Their repertoire of collective action has created a subversive necropower that challenges both necrogovernance and corporate necropower. La contenciosa necropolítica de México involucra a distintos grupos de interés que participan en la contienda política por el control de los muertos. Las familias de las víctimas de la violencia de Estado y corporativa protestan contra la necrogobernanza estatal y la necropotencia corporativa, y du poder de dictaminar las circunstancias de vida y muerte de los ciudadanos y trabajadores. Dos estudios de caso muestran cómo el Estado y las corporaciones despliegan la técnica criminal de desaparecer los cuerpos como un medio de control social que hace a los trabajadores prescindibles y a veces matables. Los movimientos sociales responden con una lucha decidida por restaurar un sentido de valor para las víctimas de la violencia a través del duelo público. Su repertorio de acción colectiva ha creado una necropotencia subversiva que desafía tanto a la necrogobernanza como a la necropotencia corporativa.

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Ohlson¹

2020

Latin American Perspectives

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“…However, following the 2014 forced disappearance of the 43 students, an international movement, propelled and sustained by online activism, emerged as a contestation of the Mexican government’s official version, which Mexico’s former attorney general cast as the “historic truth” (Jimenez, 2016: 121). It is also important to note that the local government of Iguala, where the initial encounter between the Ayotzinapa students and their attackers took place, was implicated in handing over the survivors of the initial attack to a local crime organization, which is suspected to have then tortured and executed the students (Noble, 2015). It is also suspected that state police and the army participated in either the attack of the students and the disposal of their bodies—which remain missing and unidentified—or in the cover up of the events (Jimenez, 2016).…”

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Hashtivism as public discourse: Exploring online student activism in response to state violence and forced disappearances in Mexico

Ramírez

Metcalfe

2017

Research in Education

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Mexico has a long history of tensions between the government and student activists. This history dates back to student protests that ended with the State’s violent repression of students in 1968. These tensions were reignited with the student occupation of Mexico’s National Autonomous University from 1999 to 2000, which ended through intervention by the national federal police. In the 21st century, student expression and activism occurs in the physical world as well as on social media sites. For example, the hashtag #YoSoy132 was created by a student movement begun at the Jesuit Universidad Iberoamericana in opposition to the then candidate and now President of the country, Enrique Peña Nieto. In this paper, we conceptualize social media sites as virtual public spaces, and we employ cultural critical visual discourse analysis to examine the case of student “hashtivism,” online activism through hashtags, in response to the forced disappearance of 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa in September 2014.

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Necrotaboos and Political Afterlives in Social Justice Activism during Mexico's Day of the Dead

Ohlson

2022

J. Lat. Am. Stud.

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This article shows how vulnerable communities use Mexico's Day of the Dead for social justice activism. Activists sustain what I call the ‘political afterlives’ of their victims through street altars and dark humour. I analyse this as a ‘necrosocial repertoire of contention’. The Day of the Dead can play an important role in human rights advocacy by insisting that the marginalised dead be honoured and cared for. However, disappeared people pose a challenge to Mexico's horizontal, or popular, ethics of commemoration and illustrate what I call ‘necrotaboos’, with new problems for the nation's inclusive spirit of commemorating the dead.

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Introduction: Visual Culture and Violence in Contemporary Mexico

Cited by 21 publications

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Contesting Mexico’s Necropolitics: Necrogovernance and Subversive Necropower in Two Cases

Contesting Mexico’s Necropolitics: Necrogovernance and Subversive Necropower in Two Cases

Hashtivism as public discourse: Exploring online student activism in response to state violence and forced disappearances in Mexico

Necrotaboos and Political Afterlives in Social Justice Activism during Mexico's Day of the Dead

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