Pablo Piccato
Biographic Data
| ID | 505753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pablo Piccato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pablo |
| FAMILY NAME | Piccato |
| SIGNATURE | PICCATO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sobre Ariel Rodríguez Kuri, Violencias mexicanas, 1920-2020. Once estudios
Roberto Bolaño in Context
Sobre Elisa Speckman Guerra, “El derecho a vivir como una mujer amante y amada”. Nydia Camargo, su crimen y su juicio (México, década de 1920)
Historia mínima del indigenismo en América Latina
Poesía y política en el México republicano: Una lectura de Ignacio Ramírez en Don Simplicio, 1845-1847
Este artículo examina las ideas de Ignacio Ramírez y sus contemporáneos sobre los usos políticos de la poesía. Se concentra en el periodo en el que Ignacio Ramírez y Guillermo Prieto escribieron el periódico satírico Don Simplicio, opositor al gobierno de Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga y al proyecto monarquista. A pesar de la inminencia de la guerra contra los Estados Unidos, Ramírez hizo una crítica del nacionalismo y de la poesía existente. Su obj…
A Look at the Crime Scene: The Nota Roja and the Public Pursuit of Truth
This chapter examines the emergence of the crime news, known as nota roja , since the late 1920s. This journalistic genre became the most important space in the public sphere for the discussion of matters of crime and punishment—a critical venue for readers and writers. It pays particular attention to La Prensa , the most successful newspaper of the century.
Lost Detectives: Policemen, Torture, Ley Fuga
This chapter looks at policemen and detectives in postrevolutionary Mexico. It discusses the weakness of forensic methods and the lack of prestige of police and private detectives. It examines the use of torture and extrajudicial violence against suspects.
Our Models of Dread: Crime as Revenge, Justice, and Art
This chapter looks closely at a few authors who explored the possibilities of crime fiction to reflect on the problem of truth and on homicide as a form of aesthetic creation. These authors are María Elvira Bermúdez, Rafael Bernal, Juan Bustillo Oro, and Rodolfo Usigli.
Our Times, Our Perspectives: The Emergence of Mexican Crime Fiction
This chapter examines the emergence of a popular genre of crime fiction in Mexico in the 1940s. It looks at magazines and short stories. It argues that despite the lack of official support, this genre became popular and was able to express, through fiction, the problems in the pursuit of truth and justice in front of impunity. Fictional detectives were seldom representatives of the police or the judiciary.
Conclusion: Trying to Keep Our Eyes Open
The conclusion summarizes the problems discussed in the book and places them in relation to the contemporary problems of violence, impunity, and lack of judicial transparency in Mexico.
From Transparency to Darkness: Justice and Publicity in the Mirror of Criminal Juries
This chapter follows the history of criminal jury trials in Mexico City from their establishment in the late nineteenth century until their abolition in 1929. It focuses on the organization, legislation, and operation of the institution. It examines closely the trials of María del Pilar Moreno and José de León Toral, the murderer of president-elect Alvaro Obregón, and it places both in the context of contemporary politics.
Careful Guys: Pistoleros and the Business of Politics
This chapter looks at the emergence of the figure of the pistolero , the gunman. These bodyguards for politicians combined their role as experts in the use of violence with illegal activities in which they could profit from their official protection. The chapter examines three cases of political assassination.
Horrible Crimes: Murderers as Authors
This chapter examines the emergence of famous murderers through the press. It focuses on a few cases, like that of Goyo Cárdenas. It examines the ways in which detectives, judges, psychologists, and journalists focused on these suspects, as well as the way in which some of these suspects used their public visibility to put forward their narratives.
History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico
This book examines the construction of crime as a central focus of public life in postrevolutionary Mexico. It does so by exploring cases, stories, and characters that attracted Mexican publics between the 1920s and the 1950s. The problems of learning the truth about criminal events and of adjudicating punishment or forgiveness concerned a broad spectrum of the population. This book looks at narratives, debates, and social practices through which…
A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico
Messages in Blood: A History of Crime News in Mexico
Crime, Truth, and Justice in Modern Mexico: Notes for a National History
With this lecture by Pablo Piccato, The Americas continues its collaboration with the New School for Social Research to publish its annual Lecture in Latin American History. The series features lectures by senior historians in the field of Latin American history across an array of topics. This is the fifth in the series
A esfera pública na América Latina: Um Mapa Da Historiografia
A categoria "esfera pública" é frequentemente utilizada pelos historiadores da América Latina sem muita preocupação acerca de suas implicações teóricas e metodológicas. Este artigo pretende revisar a historiografia que tem aplicado as ideias de Habermas à história latino-americana. Centra do em alguns livros particularmente importantes, o artigo pretende examinar potenciais caminhos para a pesquisa e comparações. Ao invés de se tornar uma nova or…
Murders of Nota Roja: Truth and Justice in Mexican Crime News
In mid twentieth-century Mexico, crime news was the terrain on which civil society addressed the separation between truth and justice — the disjunction between people’s knowledge about the reality of criminal acts and the state response to those acts. This gap, which had seemed to define matters of crime and punishment since the authoritarian regime of Porfirio Díaz, remained under the more socially inclusive system established after the 1910–17 …
Homicide as Politics in Modern Mexico
Laws of Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life
Amy Chazkel, Laws of Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life (2011), 348 (Duke University Press, Durham, $89.95, paperback $24.95). ‘Soy de un pais vertiginoso dond
Honor y duelo en la Argentina moderna
This compelling book demonstrates the centrality of honor in the culture of Argentine elites in the late nineteenth century, and is the best effort so far to rescue honor and the concomitant practice of dueling from the historiographical neglect of Latin American historians. The sources mined by Gayol (press, private and public archives, literature) are particularly generous. It would be difficult to build such a detailed account for any other La…
Public sphere in Latin America: A Map of the Historiography
Public sphre" is often used by historians of modern Latin America without much concern about its theoretical and methodological implications. Some historians have used it as a model to fit evidence about public debates and politics during the modern period, yet few have engaged it as a theory with deeper methodological and conceptual implications. This article will review the historical literature that has applied Habermas's ideas to Latin Americ…
The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City - by Garza, James A
La invención del poeta como héroe, genio o criminal: "Salvador Díaz Mirón después de "Lascas
Public sphere in Latin America: A Map of the Historiography
Public sphre" is often used by historians of modern Latin America without much concern about its theoretical and methodological implications. Some historians have used it as a model to fit evidence about public debates and politics during the modern period, yet few have engaged it as a theory with deeper methodological and conceptual implications. This article will review the historical literature that has applied Habermas's ideas to Latin Americ…
Murders of Nota Roja: Truth and Justice in Mexican Crime News
In mid twentieth-century Mexico, crime news was the terrain on which civil society addressed the separation between truth and justice — the disjunction between people’s knowledge about the reality of criminal acts and the state response to those acts. This gap, which had seemed to define matters of crime and punishment since the authoritarian regime of Porfirio Díaz, remained under the more socially inclusive system established after the 1910–17 …
El Paso de Venus por el disco del sol: Criminality and Alcoholism in the Late Porfiriato
Las ideas sobre criminalidad y alcoholismo fueron una parte importante de las ideas sociales de las élites porfirianas. Alrededor de ellas se construyeron categorías que servían para distinguir y jerarquizar a los grupos sociales. Los estudiosos mexicanos buscaron las peculiaridades nacionales de esos vicios mediante la observación científica y el uso de modelos explicativos importados. Sin embargo, no llegaron a establecer un consenso sobre la f…
Historia mínima del indigenismo en América Latina
Politics and the Technology of Honor: Dueling in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico
Journal Article Politics and the Technology of Honor: Dueling in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico Get access Pablo Piccato Pablo Piccato Department of History, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 33, Issue 2, Winter 1999, Pages 331–354, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.1999.0072 Published: 01 December 1999
Laws of Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life
Amy Chazkel, Laws of Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life (2011), 348 (Duke University Press, Durham, $89.95, paperback $24.95). ‘Soy de un pais vertiginoso dond
Poesía y política en el México republicano: Una lectura de Ignacio Ramírez en Don Simplicio, 1845-1847
Este artículo examina las ideas de Ignacio Ramírez y sus contemporáneos sobre los usos políticos de la poesía. Se concentra en el periodo en el que Ignacio Ramírez y Guillermo Prieto escribieron el periódico satírico Don Simplicio, opositor al gobierno de Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga y al proyecto monarquista. A pesar de la inminencia de la guerra contra los Estados Unidos, Ramírez hizo una crítica del nacionalismo y de la poesía existente. Su obj…
"El Chalequero" or the Mexican Jack the Ripper: The Meanings of Sexual Violence in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico City
During the 1880s, Francisco Guerrero, aka “El Chalequero” or “Antonio el Chaleco,” committed a long series of violent crimes, including at least two murders, against women who worked in the northern suburbs of Mexico City. The Mexican press compared him with Jack the Ripper, who killed five prostitutes in London in late 1888. However, unlike his British contemporary, whose true identity is unknown, Guerrero did nothing to hide his, and for severa…
Tales of Two Women: The Narrative Construal of Porfirian Reality
It was the perfect murder, really. Illicit passions: two beautiful women-of-the-night feuding over a dashing young rake, a masked ball, casual taunts, thwarted assaults, escalating threats. Heinous crime: the lover's borrowed gun, midnight bordello visit, fighting words, a gun shot, a maid's scream, a young woman's tragic death. Cruel punishment: suicidal remorse (by some accounts), humiliating public trial, twenty lost years (the maximum sentenc…
El Paso de Venus por el disco del sol: Criminality and Alcoholism in the Late Porfiriato
Las ideas sobre criminalidad y alcoholismo fueron una parte importante de las ideas sociales de las élites porfirianas. Alrededor de ellas se construyeron categorías que servían para distinguir y jerarquizar a los grupos sociales. Los estudiosos mexicanos buscaron las peculiaridades nacionales de esos vicios mediante la observación científica y el uso de modelos explicativos importados. Sin embargo, no llegaron a establecer un consenso sobre la f…
Politics and the Technology of Honor: Dueling in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico
Journal Article Politics and the Technology of Honor: Dueling in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico Get access Pablo Piccato Pablo Piccato Department of History, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 33, Issue 2, Winter 1999, Pages 331–354, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.1999.0072 Published: 01 December 1999
Tales of Two Women: The Narrative Construal of Porfirian Reality
It was the perfect murder, really. Illicit passions: two beautiful women-of-the-night feuding over a dashing young rake, a masked ball, casual taunts, thwarted assaults, escalating threats. Heinous crime: the lover's borrowed gun, midnight bordello visit, fighting words, a gun shot, a maid's scream, a young woman's tragic death. Cruel punishment: suicidal remorse (by some accounts), humiliating public trial, twenty lost years (the maximum sentenc…
City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931
In City of Suspects Pablo Piccato explores the multiple dimensions of crime in early-twentieth-century Mexico City. Basing his research on previously untapped judicial sources, prisoners' letters, criminological studies, quantitative data, newspapers, and political archives, Piccato examines the paradoxes of repressive policies toward crime, the impact of social rebellion on patterns of common crime, and the role of urban communities in dealing w…
"El Chalequero" or the Mexican Jack the Ripper: The Meanings of Sexual Violence in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico City
During the 1880s, Francisco Guerrero, aka “El Chalequero” or “Antonio el Chaleco,” committed a long series of violent crimes, including at least two murders, against women who worked in the northern suburbs of Mexico City. The Mexican press compared him with Jack the Ripper, who killed five prostitutes in London in late 1888. However, unlike his British contemporary, whose true identity is unknown, Guerrero did nothing to hide his, and for severa…
Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City
Recent studies on state formation and social control in Latin America have rightly emphasized the importance of gender as a dimension of social relations and cultural constructions. Yet not all attempts have been so successful at translating theoretical concerns into specific historical explanations of practices involving actors beyond the small groups that produced most discourse about social reform. All too frequently, analyses of the metaphors…
The Hidden Story—Violence and the Law in Guatemala
Like all good historical research, “Gloria's story” raises more questions than it can answer. My reaction to the article, which I initially shared with the author as an anonymous reviewer for Law and History Review , assumes that this incompleteness is a welcome aspect of the historian's trade, rather than a gap that we should cover with theorization or redundant evidence. Yet the narrative structure of case studies like this makes it necessary t…
La invención del poeta como héroe, genio o criminal: "Salvador Díaz Mirón después de "Lascas
The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City - by Garza, James A
Public sphere in Latin America: A Map of the Historiography
Public sphre" is often used by historians of modern Latin America without much concern about its theoretical and methodological implications. Some historians have used it as a model to fit evidence about public debates and politics during the modern period, yet few have engaged it as a theory with deeper methodological and conceptual implications. This article will review the historical literature that has applied Habermas's ideas to Latin Americ…
Honor y duelo en la Argentina moderna
This compelling book demonstrates the centrality of honor in the culture of Argentine elites in the late nineteenth century, and is the best effort so far to rescue honor and the concomitant practice of dueling from the historiographical neglect of Latin American historians. The sources mined by Gayol (press, private and public archives, literature) are particularly generous. It would be difficult to build such a detailed account for any other La…
Laws of Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life
Amy Chazkel, Laws of Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life (2011), 348 (Duke University Press, Durham, $89.95, paperback $24.95). ‘Soy de un pais vertiginoso dond
Homicide as Politics in Modern Mexico
A esfera pública na América Latina: Um Mapa Da Historiografia
A categoria "esfera pública" é frequentemente utilizada pelos historiadores da América Latina sem muita preocupação acerca de suas implicações teóricas e metodológicas. Este artigo pretende revisar a historiografia que tem aplicado as ideias de Habermas à história latino-americana. Centra do em alguns livros particularmente importantes, o artigo pretende examinar potenciais caminhos para a pesquisa e comparações. Ao invés de se tornar uma nova or…
Murders of Nota Roja: Truth and Justice in Mexican Crime News
In mid twentieth-century Mexico, crime news was the terrain on which civil society addressed the separation between truth and justice — the disjunction between people’s knowledge about the reality of criminal acts and the state response to those acts. This gap, which had seemed to define matters of crime and punishment since the authoritarian regime of Porfirio Díaz, remained under the more socially inclusive system established after the 1910–17 …
Crime, Truth, and Justice in Modern Mexico: Notes for a National History
With this lecture by Pablo Piccato, The Americas continues its collaboration with the New School for Social Research to publish its annual Lecture in Latin American History. The series features lectures by senior historians in the field of Latin American history across an array of topics. This is the fifth in the series
A Look at the Crime Scene: The Nota Roja and the Public Pursuit of Truth
This chapter examines the emergence of the crime news, known as nota roja , since the late 1920s. This journalistic genre became the most important space in the public sphere for the discussion of matters of crime and punishment—a critical venue for readers and writers. It pays particular attention to La Prensa , the most successful newspaper of the century.
Lost Detectives: Policemen, Torture, Ley Fuga
This chapter looks at policemen and detectives in postrevolutionary Mexico. It discusses the weakness of forensic methods and the lack of prestige of police and private detectives. It examines the use of torture and extrajudicial violence against suspects.
Our Models of Dread: Crime as Revenge, Justice, and Art
This chapter looks closely at a few authors who explored the possibilities of crime fiction to reflect on the problem of truth and on homicide as a form of aesthetic creation. These authors are María Elvira Bermúdez, Rafael Bernal, Juan Bustillo Oro, and Rodolfo Usigli.
Our Times, Our Perspectives: The Emergence of Mexican Crime Fiction
This chapter examines the emergence of a popular genre of crime fiction in Mexico in the 1940s. It looks at magazines and short stories. It argues that despite the lack of official support, this genre became popular and was able to express, through fiction, the problems in the pursuit of truth and justice in front of impunity. Fictional detectives were seldom representatives of the police or the judiciary.
Conclusion: Trying to Keep Our Eyes Open
The conclusion summarizes the problems discussed in the book and places them in relation to the contemporary problems of violence, impunity, and lack of judicial transparency in Mexico.
From Transparency to Darkness: Justice and Publicity in the Mirror of Criminal Juries
This chapter follows the history of criminal jury trials in Mexico City from their establishment in the late nineteenth century until their abolition in 1929. It focuses on the organization, legislation, and operation of the institution. It examines closely the trials of María del Pilar Moreno and José de León Toral, the murderer of president-elect Alvaro Obregón, and it places both in the context of contemporary politics.
Careful Guys: Pistoleros and the Business of Politics
This chapter looks at the emergence of the figure of the pistolero , the gunman. These bodyguards for politicians combined their role as experts in the use of violence with illegal activities in which they could profit from their official protection. The chapter examines three cases of political assassination.
Horrible Crimes: Murderers as Authors
This chapter examines the emergence of famous murderers through the press. It focuses on a few cases, like that of Goyo Cárdenas. It examines the ways in which detectives, judges, psychologists, and journalists focused on these suspects, as well as the way in which some of these suspects used their public visibility to put forward their narratives.
History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico
This book examines the construction of crime as a central focus of public life in postrevolutionary Mexico. It does so by exploring cases, stories, and characters that attracted Mexican publics between the 1920s and the 1950s. The problems of learning the truth about criminal events and of adjudicating punishment or forgiveness concerned a broad spectrum of the population. This book looks at narratives, debates, and social practices through which…
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