Violence in the unimaginable country. Mexico (2007-2011): bystanders and visual surface

Authors

  • Maya Victoria Aguiluz-Ibargüen Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Abstract

Taking the cultural objects as indexical images and the Mexican storytellers about violence in the recent Mexico, this article pretend to understand the worlds of life inhabited by traumatic experiences and events. No matter what intensive the exhibitory complex of the scenes of "bad death" have been in this country, the case never imagined before is the disturbing effect of a totalizing violence characterized by mechanisms of denial the bereaved of death bodies to bury, and of which the geography of this unimaginable country is a bystander.

Keywords

Violence, Recent Mexico, indexical images, Places as Bystander

Author Biography

Maya Victoria Aguiluz-Ibargüen, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Socióloga. Investigadora titular. Centro de investigaciones interdisciplinarias en ciencias y humanidades (CEIICH) de la UNAM. Profesora del Posgrado en Estudios Latinoamericanos de la misma Universidad. Cuenta con varios libros editados, y de su autoría: El lejano próximo. Estudios sociológicos sobre extrañeidad (Barcelona: Anthropos, 2008) y Ocho religaduras sociológicas. De cuerpos y signaturas (México D.F.: UNAM, 2013)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.1600

Published

2016-01-10

How to Cite

Aguiluz-Ibargüen, M. V. (2016). Violence in the unimaginable country. Mexico (2007-2011): bystanders and visual surface. Athenea Digital. Revista De Pensamiento E investigación Social, 15(4), 345–368. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.1600

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