The Dispossessed of Necropolitics on the San Diego-Tijuana Border

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5935964
AutoresGustavo Aviña Cerecer (0000-0002-3050-9233, Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen9
Número6
Páginas91
Fecha de publicación2020-05-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/socsci9060091
OpenAlexW3032737854
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas7

This article presents results of a first-hand investigation that took a year of ethnographic work (methods of observation and interviews) during 2016-2017, with the post-structural theoretical framework of Gilles Deleuze, on the United States-Mexico border, in the San Diego-Tijuana corridor. The Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies of the University of California San Diego, PREVENCASA A. C., and Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosi supported this research. In this research, statistical data, observations, and synthesis of in-depth interviews were utilized about those defined as the 'dispossessed': users of hard drugs, and/or in homelessness conditions of discrimination in a highly contrasting border such as that of the United States and Mexico. Among the main results are the relations between mental and embodiment limits, necropolitics and territory, as well as the approach of post-structural political discourses about the body and mind that allow us to understand the subjectivities in question, proposing two types of homelessness

Ethnography · Latin Americans · Participant observation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychological Treatments and Disorders · Public Health and Social Inequalities · Youth, Drugs, and Violence · Gerontology