Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-51143-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 211 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

This book explores the current human rights crisis created by the War on Drugs in Mexico. It focuses on three vulnerable communities that have felt the impacts of this war firsthand: undocumented Central American migrants in transit to the United States, journalists who report on violence in highly dangerous regions, and the mourning relatives of victims of severe crimes, who take collective action by participating in human rights investigations and searching for their missing loved ones. Analyzing contemporary novels, journalistic chronicles, testimonial works, and documentaries, the book reveals the political potential of these communities’ vulnerability and victimization portrayed in these fictional and non-fictional representations. Violence against migrants, journalists, and activists reveals an array of human rights violations affecting the right to safe transit across borders, freedom of expression, the right to information, and the right to truth and justice.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diego Rivera Hernández, Raúl

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sadek, Isis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Vulnerabilities and Resistances in Transit: Narratives from Central American Colonial Transmigrants.- 3. “Nos están matando!”: Professional Reflexivity on Violence Against Mexican Journalists in Contemporary Chronicles.- 4. Dissident mourners: victims’ political participation in human rights activism.- 5. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández is an Associate Professor at Villanova University. He has Edited Del Internet a las calles: #Yosoy132, una opción alternativa de hacer política (2016). His research chiefly focuses on cultural representations of the human rights crisis and the War on Drugs in Mexico.