Insurgent Vigilantism and Drug War in Mexico

IF 1.6 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE
M. Wolff
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Abstract

The proliferation of armed, anti-crime self-defence groups (autodefensas) in Mexico since 2013 has sparked renewed scholarly interest in vigilantism and the politics of collective violence more generally. Whilst most of this recent scholarship attempts to explain where and why such groups emerge in the first place, very little attention has been paid to the micro-foundations of vigilante organisation and behaviour. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Mexico in 2018, and incorporating theoretical insights from the social movements, civil war, and organised crime literatures, this paper examines the political strategies and collection action regimes of contemporary vigilante mobilisation. I argue that vigilante groups in Mexico employ the tactics of popular insurgency both as a negotiating tool to influence government behaviour or policy, and as a primary mechanism to overcome collection action problems in high-risk environments.
墨西哥的叛乱警戒与毒品战争
自2013年以来,武装反犯罪自卫团体(autodefenas)在墨西哥的扩散,引发了对治安维持主义和更普遍的集体暴力政治的新一轮学术兴趣。虽然最近的大部分学术研究都试图解释这些团体最初出现的地点和原因,但很少有人关注治安维持者组织和行为的微观基础。借鉴2018年在墨西哥进行的民族志研究,并结合社会运动、内战和有组织犯罪文献的理论见解,本文探讨了当代义务警员动员的政治策略和收集行动制度。我认为,墨西哥的治安维持团体采用民众暴动的策略,既是一种影响政府行为或政策的谈判工具,也是一种克服高风险环境中收集行动问题的主要机制。
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