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Ni vivos ni muertos
Premio PEN México 2015 XLIV Certamen Nacional e Internacional de Periodismo. Ni vivos ni muertos es una investigación periodística que revela los terribles alcances de la desaparición forzada en México. A partir de un extenso trabajo de campo a lo largo del país, así como de entrevistas a familiares de desaparecidos, politólogos, historiadores, activistas, funcionarios públicos y víctimas de desaparición, Federico Mastrogiovanni traza el mapa de un complejo fenómeno que parece no tener ni pies ni cabeza. Al rastrear la genealogía de este delito, el autor se remonta a los años setenta del siglo pasado, cuando se llevó a cabo la desaparición forzada del luchador social guerrere...
Ni vivants ni morts
Ni vivants, ni morts : les disparus sont là, dans cet interstice, ce no man's land, invisibles aux yeux du monde, sans corps, sans tombe, sans aucune existence. Arrachés à leur vie, et comme dissous dans l'atmosphère. Pour leurs proches, aucune possibilité de recours, le deuil impossible, l'angoisse interminable, les menaces, l'hypocrisie des autorités. Depuis une dizaine d'années, on compte plus de 30 000 disparus au Mexique. Avec les 43 étudiants de l'École normale d'Ayotzinapa, l'onde de choc s'est répandue dans le monde, mais ni la pression internationale, ni les associations des droits de l'homme, ni les initiatives des familles n'ont suffi, dans ce cas comme dans d'autres, à...
Aquí acaba la patria
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The Tyranny of Common Sense
As one of the first countries to implement a neoliberal state apparatus, Mexico serves as a prime example of the effects of neoliberal structural economic reform on our sensibility. Irgmard Emmelhainz argues that, in addition to functioning as a form of politico-economic organization, neoliberalism creates particular ways of seeing and inhabiting the world. It reconfigures common sense, justifying destruction and dispossession in the name of development and promising to solve economic precarity with self-help and permanent education. Pragmatism reigns, yet in always aiming to maximize individual benefit and profit, such common sense fuels a culture of violence and erodes the distinction betw...
Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs
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.
Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-century Mexico
This work brings together a new generation of drug historians and new historical sources to uncover the history of the drug trade and its regulations. While the US and Mexican governments developed anti-drug discourses and policies, which criminalized both high-profile traffickers and small-time addicts, these authorities also employed the criminals and cash connected to the drug trade to pursue more pressing political concerns. The politics, socioeconomic relations, and criminal justice system of modern Mexico has been shaped by standing public and covert state policies as well as by the interaction of subnational trajectories of drug production and trafficking. The essays in this study explore this complicated narrative and provide insight into Mexico's history and the wider contemporary global drug trade.
El asesino que no seremos
La estremecedora biografía de un hombre que buscaba el sueño americano y encontró, en cambio, la más terrible pesadilla. Tras quince años de cárcel, Ed logró regresar de los sótanos del sistema con la firme convicción de rehacer su vida. Ed pertenece a los llamados dreamers, término que ha obtenido recientemente visibilidad mediática a partir de trabajos de investigación como los de la periodista Eileen Truax. Los dreamers son personas que llegaron con sus familias de manera ilegal a Estados Unidos cuando eran menores de edad; muchos corren el riesgo de ser deportados a su país de origen, el cual es muy probable que ni siquiera recuerden. Mientras algunos luchan por regularizar ...
Mexico's Human Rights Crisis
Lawless elements are ascendant in Mexico, as evidenced by the operations of criminal cartels engaged in human and drug trafficking, often with the active support or acquiescence of government actors. The sharp increase in the number of victims of homicide, disappearances and torture over the past decade is unparalleled in the country's recent history. According to editors Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz and Barbara Frey, the "war on drugs" launched in 2006 by President Felipe Calderón and the corrupting influence criminal organizations have on public institutions have empowered both state and nonstate actors to operate with impunity. Impunity, they argue, is the root cause that has enabled a human-r...
A Just Peace Ethic Primer
The just peace movement offers a critical shift in focus and imagination. Recognizing that all life is sacred and seeking peace through violence is unsustainable, the just peace approach turns our attention to rehumanization, participatory processes, nonviolent resistance, restorative justice, reconciliation, racial justice, and creative strategies of active nonviolence to build sustainable peace, transform conflict, and end cycles of violence. A Just Peace Ethic Primer illuminates a moral framework behind this praxis and proves its versatility in global contexts. With essays by a diverse group of scholars, A Just Peace Ethic Primer outlines the ethical, theological, and activist underpinnin...
Futurability
We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem to be incapable of producing the radical change that is so desperately needed. Is there still a way to disentangle ourselves from a global order that shapes our politics as well as our imagination? In his most systematic book to date, renowned Italian theorist Franco Berardi tackles this question through a solid yet visionary analysis of the three fundamental concepts of Possibility, Potency, and Power. Characterizing Possibility as the content, Potency as the energy, and Power as the form, Berardi suggests that the road to emancipation unravels from the awareness that the field of the possible is only limited, and not created, by the power structures that implement it. Other futures and other worlds are always already inscribed within the present, despite power's attempt at keeping them invisible. Overcoming any temptation of giving in to despair or nostalgia, Berardi proposes the notion of 'futurability' as a way to remind us that even within the darkness of our current crisis lies dormant the horizon of possibility.
