{"title":"Defensa comunitaria y culturas del terror: Crimen organizado y violencia de Estado en comunidades originarias de Guerrero, México","authors":"Inés Giménez Delgado","doi":"10.1111/jlca.12641","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.12641","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post-colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so-called fight against drugs has contributed to very high rates of multiple and continuous violence. Drawing on investigative ethnographic fieldwork, testimonial work and a hemerographic review in Guerrero, this article investigates how the entanglement between state, para-state, criminal and community actors leads to some short of “state of exception,” as well as to the emergence of forms of territorial organization. Through a case study in rural Nahua communities of Chilapa and echoing studies on the anthropology of violence, state anthropology and anarchist anthropology, we discuss the culture of terror at the margins of the state and the strategies of community and everyday resistance, that, although seek to ensure their political and economic survival, are at risk of being captured by some forms of the violence they fight.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"27 4","pages":"564-574"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.12641","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86825244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narco-spectrality: Narco-aesthetics and hauntings in the short film Pánico en Pánuco","authors":"Mael Vizcarra","doi":"10.1111/jlca.12648","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.12648","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article uses text and film to demonstrate how the affective and sensory dimensions of narco-power in contemporary Mexico haunt the familiar. As a case study, I draw on footage documenting my family's trip to Sinaloa to visit my father's birthplace in the rural mining town of Pánuco. Through an analysis of the ghosts produced by the filmmaking process and the disruptions to our travels by an increasingly tangible threat of narco-violence, this article explores how fear and distrust reshape a pastoral aesthetics of family leisure. Film is adept at exploring sensory, affective, and embodied aspects of everyday experience. Here it is used to evoke unfolding tensions among my family members, underlining the ways narco-terror manifests atmospherically and as an embodied experience. Film and text here narrate a subjective experience of narco-power and make the case for the ways a spectral narco-aesthetics, or narco-spectrality, permeate the familiar.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"27 4","pages":"550-563"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90487781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Producing ethical water: Anti-mining activism and conflicts over municipal water provisioning in Cuenca, Ecuador","authors":"Teresa A. Velásquez","doi":"10.1111/jlca.12646","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.12646","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When gold deposits were confirmed in a community watershed in 2005, water became a politically charged arena for anti-mining activism. This article follows the outcomes of a 2014 Ecuadorian water law on conflicts over water provisioning. Arguments about water's material properties and social qualities were deployed by government, municipal, and local actors in contests over who had legitimate authority to govern rural water systems. Claims about “clean” or “untreated” water—about water as a human right or as ethical solidarity—are invoked in disputes over whether drinking water should be managed by the municipality or the community. I argue that mining conflicts shape the way communities respond to the municipalization of their water supplies, leading to new forms of resource politics encapsulated in the term “ethical water.” The article illustrates the mutual constitution of conflicts over mining and water provisioning and how anti-extractive agendas are shaping Andean water governance.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"27 4","pages":"575-586"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.12646","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73537556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How the Guatemalan civil war became a genocide: Revisiting the 2013 trial of General Efraín Ríos Montt","authors":"David Stoll","doi":"10.1111/jlca.12647","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.12647","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The 2013 trial of Efraín Ríos Montt cemented Guatemala's reputation as a land of genocide. Most of the survivors who testified about army crimes during his 1982–1983 regime came from the Ixil Maya town of Nebaj. Oddly, some Nebajenses credit Ríos Montt with ending army massacres and saving their lives. This article focuses on the genocide debate in the municipio of Nebaj. It concludes that command responsibility for war crimes would have been a more effective indictment than genocide.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"27 4","pages":"528-539"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79237198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Downtown Juárez: Underworlds of Violence and Abuse. Howard Campbell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 362 pp.","authors":"Daniel E. Martínez","doi":"10.1111/jlca.12635","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.12635","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"27 4","pages":"628-629"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73793342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entre el Atlántico y el Pacífico Negro: Afrodescendencia y Regímenes de Desigualdad en Sudamérica. Edited by Manuel Góngora Mera, Rocío Vera Santos, Sérgio Costa. Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2019. 656 pp.","authors":"Carla Guerrón Montero","doi":"10.1111/jlca.12633","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.12633","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"27 4","pages":"624-625"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74367827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El desvanecimiento de lo popular: gentrificación en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México. Vicente Moctezuma Mendoza. Mexico City: El Colegio de México/Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 2021. 371 pp.","authors":"Tiana Bakić Hayden","doi":"10.1111/jlca.12634","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.12634","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"27 4","pages":"626-627"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80199157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Populist infrastructures: The aesthetics and semiotics of how obras do politics in Lima, Peru","authors":"Adela Zhang","doi":"10.1111/jlca.12640","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.12640","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Obrismo</i>, or the exchange of public works projects (<i>obras</i>) for popular goodwill, is a fixture of politics in Latin America. In Lima, Peru, various politicians use aesthetic-semiotic forms like bright colors and snappy hashtags to highlight their concrete contributions to municipal governance. This article examines the specific aesthetic and semiotic operations behind the political alchemy that aims to transform material infrastructures into popular legitimacy. Through digital anthropology of social media, I argue that the aesthetics of <i>obras</i> reveal a populist logic underpinning how infrastructures do politics in Lima. I also suggest that using aesthetic forms to articulate a political constituency like “the people” is a fundamentally unstable political practice. Through colors and hashtags, <i>obras</i> that promise popular legitimacy may instead be resignified, resulting in widespread disapproval. This article therefore uncovers the open-ended populist possibilities of <i>obras</i> to underscore the need to collectively rethink how populism and infrastructures operate in Latin American politics, online and offline.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"27 4","pages":"587-600"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73537924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imágenes de la muerte y necropolítica de la dictadura en Chile","authors":"Jorge Pavez Ojeda","doi":"10.1111/jlca.12643","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.12643","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Violent death and forced disappearance, as necropolitical operations of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (Chile, 1973–1990), has been the subject of a war of images where the naturalization of disappearance and the invisibilization of violence were confronted by images created to make visible what state terrorism had tried to erase from historical memory. This article addresses the becoming-image of these bodies, after their organic death, in the different temporalities of their inscription in social memory through art, cinema, anthropology, and the law. I offer thus a journey into a little explored dimension of necropolitics, such as attempts to manage time and memory through operations of concealment and the technopolitics of images. The written montage of Walter Benjamin's “dialectical images,” which juxtapose, condense, and intertwine heterogeneous temporalities, seeks to show how images of the dead can contribute to disabling the necropolitical administration of memory.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"27 4","pages":"512-527"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79040943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“En Bolivia lo hacen andar”: Régimen de mantenimiento, dimensión emotiva y prácticas de renovación vehicular del transporte colectivo de La Paz","authors":"Francisco García-Jerez","doi":"10.1111/jlca.12645","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.12645","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article I analyze the emotional logic that urban transport drivers in La Paz assign to their vehicles in their life cycle. I pay attention to the emotive dimension of the “technical rationality” of practices of vehicle renewal, reuse, and maintenance—that is to say, the set of emotions, affections, and, especially, feelings that emerge in keeping the vehicle in good condition or in its possible replacement. This emotional dimension does not emerge as an autonomous sphere of technical rationality but rather is inherent to it. My hypothesis also points to its overflowing and kaleidoscopic character, since it transcends the individual experience by allowing us to analyze other phenomena of social life.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"27 4","pages":"613-621"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84552135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}