Wil G Pansters
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 214914 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Wil G Pansters |
| PRENOMES | Wil G |
| SOBRENOME | Pansters |
| ASSINATURA | PANSTERS W G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1211-7217 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Visibility and Iconic Aspirations of Santa Muerte Devotion in Mexico
This article examines the manifestations and meanings of the spectacularly increased visibility of Santa Muerte devotion in contemporary Mexico. This remarkable development acquires significance against the background of the cult's previous history of concealed devotion. To confront their existential uncertainties and vulnerabilities, present day Santa Muerte devotees engage in a range visual, performative, and spatial practices. Although empiric…
Santa Muerte Devotion
In recent decades the cult of Santa Muerte has become a remarkable phenomenon in Mexico's popular religious landscape, from where it has migrated abroad. Due to the uncommon iconography of the robed skeleton and the association with criminality, the Santa Muerte cult has been the object of public controversy. This Element deconstructs mainstream views of Santa Muerte devotion by privileging the voices and practices of devotees. Counterintuitively…
Between fear, impunity, agency, and the (new) state, or how to think the Mexican predicament
Book Review Essay by Wil G. Pansters – Bootstrap Justice. The Search for Mexico’s Disappeared, by Janice K. Gallagher, Oxford University Press, 2023. – Sovereignty and Extortion. A New State Form in Mexico, by Claudio Lomnitz, Duke University Press, 2024. – The Two Faces of Fear. Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis, by Ana Villareal, Oxford University Press, 2024
Building blocks for a new paradigm? State-making, society and violence in twentieth-century Mexico
Unrevolutionary Mexico. The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship, by Paul Gillingham, Yale University Press, 2021. – Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959-1965, by Elizabeth Henson, University of Arizona Press, 2019. – In the Vortex of Violence. Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, by Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, University of California Press, 2020. – Unintended Lessons of Revolution. Student Teachers and Po…
Civil-military Relations in Mexico
While far from ideal, civil-military relations in Mexico in the second half of the twentieth century stood apart from the Latin American trend towards military government and dictatorship. Over the course of the last three decades, however, drug-trafficking, organised crime and high levels of violence and insecurity have deeply transformed this historical pattern with Mexico experiencing a clearcut process of militarization and becoming part of a…
La mafia muere
The article examines the rise in violence in the state of Sinaloa between the 1940s and the 1980s. It analyzes the shifting structure of the drug trade and the changing roles of federal and state authorities, bringing both observations together. By looking at the changing nature of the drug trade and its relationship to state authorities from the 1930s through to the 1970s, the article attempts to understand why Sinaloa experienced such an upsurg…
A History of Infamy
Pablo Piccato has written a remarkable book. It develops a refreshing analytical and historical perspective on Mexico's fundamental dilemmas concerning the rule of law. The central focus is on the nexus of crime, truth, and justice and, more importantly, on how this nexus broke down in the first half of the twentieth century. As a result and in the face of new forms of urban crime and violence, a whole range of actors and institutions engage in m…
Drug trafficking, the informal order, and caciques . Reflections on the crime-governance nexus in Mexico
While Mexico is widely considered as an example of consolidated statehood, the deepening of drug-related violence and insecurity has corroborated the existence and expansion of ‘dark spaces’ governed by coalitions of state and non-state actors driven by criminal and political interests. In contrast to the prevailing interpretations and public narratives, I will argue that it is historically and conceptually flawed to understand such expressions o…
US Moral Panics, Mexican Politics, and the Borderlands Origins of the War on Drugs, 1950–62
During the 1950s Californian civil society advocates and politicians developed a moral panic over youth narcotic use. One of the key elements of this moral panic was the assertion that most drugs came over the border and that the only solution to this problem was blackmailing Mexico through temporary closure of the border. The idea not only became a tenet of later drug policy, but also, in conjunction with pressure from Mexico’s own moral reforme…
Violence and Crime in Latin America
Clifford Geertz famously wrote that “man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.” Acts of meaning making always occur in the context of particular historical systems shot through with power relations. Power and meaning making are intrinsically related. In Latin America, key variables are class, race, and gender. In this volume, Gema Santamaría and David Carey Jr. have brought together a fascinating collection of articl…
Beyond the Drug War in Mexico
Spies, Assassins, and Statesmen in Mexico’s Cold War
Book Review Essay Eclipse of the Assassins. The CIA, Imperial Politics, and the Slaying of Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendía, by Russell H. Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley. University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. Mexico’s Cold War. Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution, by Renata Keller. Cambridge University Press, 2015. The Logic of Compromise in Mexico. How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianis…
Beyond the Drug War in Mexico
This volume aims to go beyond the study of developments within Mexico's criminal world and their relationship with the state and law enforcement. it focuses instead on the nature and consequences of what we call the "totalization of the drug war," and its projection on other domains which are key to understanding the nature of Mexican democracy. The volume brings together chapters written by distinguished scholars from Mexico and elsewhere who de…
Enacting Identity and Transition
On the basis of ethnographic and historical material this article makes a comparative analysis of the relationship between public events, ceremonies and academic rituals, institutional identity, and processes of transition and power at two universities, one in Mexico and the other in South Africa. The public events examined here play a major role in imagining and bringing about political shifts within universities as well as between universities …
We Had to Pay to Live
This article examines the emergence of self-defense forces (autodefensas) in Michoacán (Mexico) in the context of relationships between drug trafficking and the state, concentrating on the recent history of fragmentation, disorder, and violence. It traces how these processes generated comprehensive criminal sovereignty projects, which then triggered the emergence of armed defense forces in both indigenous and mestizo communities. Recent developme…
Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Mexico is currently undergoing a crisis of violence and insecurity that poses serious threats to democratic transition and rule of law. This is the first book to put these developments in the context of post-revolutionary state-making in Mexico and to show that violence in Mexico is not the result of state failure, but of state-making. While most accounts of politics and the state in recent decades have emphasized processes of transition, institu…
Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Alternation, Transition, and Regime Change in Mexico
Vuelta en U. Guía para entender y reactivar la democracia estancada, by Sergio Aguayo Quezada. México D.F.: Taurus, 2010.– Consolidating Mexico’s Democracy. The 2006 Presidential Campaign in Comparative Perspective, edited by Jorge I. Domínguez, Chappell Lawson and Alejandro Moreno. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.– El centro dividido. La nueva autonomía de los gobernadores, by Rogelio Hernández Rodríguez. Mexico City: El Cole…
Surviving Mexico's Dirty War. A Political Prisoner's Memoir - by Alberto Ulloa Bornemann
Authenticity, hybridity, and difference
This article studies the transformation of the debate about national culture in twentieth-century Mexico by looking at the complex relationship between discourses of authenticity and mestizaje. The article firstly demonstrates how in the first half of the twentieth century, Mexican national identity was constructed out of a state-led program of mestizaje, thereby supposedly giving rise to a new and authentic identity, the mestizo (nation). Second…
Globalization and Development
La transición a fuego cruzado
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Politics and Power in Puebla
Social Movement and Discourse
Drug trafficking, the informal order, and caciques . Reflections on the crime-governance nexus in Mexico
While Mexico is widely considered as an example of consolidated statehood, the deepening of drug-related violence and insecurity has corroborated the existence and expansion of ‘dark spaces’ governed by coalitions of state and non-state actors driven by criminal and political interests. In contrast to the prevailing interpretations and public narratives, I will argue that it is historically and conceptually flawed to understand such expressions o…
Civil-military Relations in Mexico
While far from ideal, civil-military relations in Mexico in the second half of the twentieth century stood apart from the Latin American trend towards military government and dictatorship. Over the course of the last three decades, however, drug-trafficking, organised crime and high levels of violence and insecurity have deeply transformed this historical pattern with Mexico experiencing a clearcut process of militarization and becoming part of a…
Politics and Power in Puebla
We Had to Pay to Live
This article examines the emergence of self-defense forces (autodefensas) in Michoacán (Mexico) in the context of relationships between drug trafficking and the state, concentrating on the recent history of fragmentation, disorder, and violence. It traces how these processes generated comprehensive criminal sovereignty projects, which then triggered the emergence of armed defense forces in both indigenous and mestizo communities. Recent developme…
Enacting Identity and Transition
On the basis of ethnographic and historical material this article makes a comparative analysis of the relationship between public events, ceremonies and academic rituals, institutional identity, and processes of transition and power at two universities, one in Mexico and the other in South Africa. The public events examined here play a major role in imagining and bringing about political shifts within universities as well as between universities …
US Moral Panics, Mexican Politics, and the Borderlands Origins of the War on Drugs, 1950–62
During the 1950s Californian civil society advocates and politicians developed a moral panic over youth narcotic use. One of the key elements of this moral panic was the assertion that most drugs came over the border and that the only solution to this problem was blackmailing Mexico through temporary closure of the border. The idea not only became a tenet of later drug policy, but also, in conjunction with pressure from Mexico’s own moral reforme…
Violence and Crime in Latin America
Clifford Geertz famously wrote that “man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.” Acts of meaning making always occur in the context of particular historical systems shot through with power relations. Power and meaning making are intrinsically related. In Latin America, key variables are class, race, and gender. In this volume, Gema Santamaría and David Carey Jr. have brought together a fascinating collection of articl…
Social Movement and Discourse
Social Movement and Discourse
Politics and Power in Puebla
La transición a fuego cruzado
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Globalization and Development
Authenticity, hybridity, and difference
This article studies the transformation of the debate about national culture in twentieth-century Mexico by looking at the complex relationship between discourses of authenticity and mestizaje. The article firstly demonstrates how in the first half of the twentieth century, Mexican national identity was constructed out of a state-led program of mestizaje, thereby supposedly giving rise to a new and authentic identity, the mestizo (nation). Second…
Surviving Mexico's Dirty War. A Political Prisoner's Memoir - by Alberto Ulloa Bornemann
Alternation, Transition, and Regime Change in Mexico
Vuelta en U. Guía para entender y reactivar la democracia estancada, by Sergio Aguayo Quezada. México D.F.: Taurus, 2010.– Consolidating Mexico’s Democracy. The 2006 Presidential Campaign in Comparative Perspective, edited by Jorge I. Domínguez, Chappell Lawson and Alejandro Moreno. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.– El centro dividido. La nueva autonomía de los gobernadores, by Rogelio Hernández Rodríguez. Mexico City: El Cole…
Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Mexico is currently undergoing a crisis of violence and insecurity that poses serious threats to democratic transition and rule of law. This is the first book to put these developments in the context of post-revolutionary state-making in Mexico and to show that violence in Mexico is not the result of state failure, but of state-making. While most accounts of politics and the state in recent decades have emphasized processes of transition, institu…
Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Enacting Identity and Transition
On the basis of ethnographic and historical material this article makes a comparative analysis of the relationship between public events, ceremonies and academic rituals, institutional identity, and processes of transition and power at two universities, one in Mexico and the other in South Africa. The public events examined here play a major role in imagining and bringing about political shifts within universities as well as between universities …
We Had to Pay to Live
This article examines the emergence of self-defense forces (autodefensas) in Michoacán (Mexico) in the context of relationships between drug trafficking and the state, concentrating on the recent history of fragmentation, disorder, and violence. It traces how these processes generated comprehensive criminal sovereignty projects, which then triggered the emergence of armed defense forces in both indigenous and mestizo communities. Recent developme…
Beyond the Drug War in Mexico
Spies, Assassins, and Statesmen in Mexico’s Cold War
Book Review Essay Eclipse of the Assassins. The CIA, Imperial Politics, and the Slaying of Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendía, by Russell H. Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley. University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. Mexico’s Cold War. Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution, by Renata Keller. Cambridge University Press, 2015. The Logic of Compromise in Mexico. How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianis…
Beyond the Drug War in Mexico
This volume aims to go beyond the study of developments within Mexico's criminal world and their relationship with the state and law enforcement. it focuses instead on the nature and consequences of what we call the "totalization of the drug war," and its projection on other domains which are key to understanding the nature of Mexican democracy. The volume brings together chapters written by distinguished scholars from Mexico and elsewhere who de…
Drug trafficking, the informal order, and caciques . Reflections on the crime-governance nexus in Mexico
While Mexico is widely considered as an example of consolidated statehood, the deepening of drug-related violence and insecurity has corroborated the existence and expansion of ‘dark spaces’ governed by coalitions of state and non-state actors driven by criminal and political interests. In contrast to the prevailing interpretations and public narratives, I will argue that it is historically and conceptually flawed to understand such expressions o…
US Moral Panics, Mexican Politics, and the Borderlands Origins of the War on Drugs, 1950–62
During the 1950s Californian civil society advocates and politicians developed a moral panic over youth narcotic use. One of the key elements of this moral panic was the assertion that most drugs came over the border and that the only solution to this problem was blackmailing Mexico through temporary closure of the border. The idea not only became a tenet of later drug policy, but also, in conjunction with pressure from Mexico’s own moral reforme…
Violence and Crime in Latin America
Clifford Geertz famously wrote that “man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.” Acts of meaning making always occur in the context of particular historical systems shot through with power relations. Power and meaning making are intrinsically related. In Latin America, key variables are class, race, and gender. In this volume, Gema Santamaría and David Carey Jr. have brought together a fascinating collection of articl…
A History of Infamy
Pablo Piccato has written a remarkable book. It develops a refreshing analytical and historical perspective on Mexico's fundamental dilemmas concerning the rule of law. The central focus is on the nexus of crime, truth, and justice and, more importantly, on how this nexus broke down in the first half of the twentieth century. As a result and in the face of new forms of urban crime and violence, a whole range of actors and institutions engage in m…
La mafia muere
The article examines the rise in violence in the state of Sinaloa between the 1940s and the 1980s. It analyzes the shifting structure of the drug trade and the changing roles of federal and state authorities, bringing both observations together. By looking at the changing nature of the drug trade and its relationship to state authorities from the 1930s through to the 1970s, the article attempts to understand why Sinaloa experienced such an upsurg…
Building blocks for a new paradigm? State-making, society and violence in twentieth-century Mexico
Unrevolutionary Mexico. The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship, by Paul Gillingham, Yale University Press, 2021. – Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959-1965, by Elizabeth Henson, University of Arizona Press, 2019. – In the Vortex of Violence. Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, by Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, University of California Press, 2020. – Unintended Lessons of Revolution. Student Teachers and Po…
Civil-military Relations in Mexico
While far from ideal, civil-military relations in Mexico in the second half of the twentieth century stood apart from the Latin American trend towards military government and dictatorship. Over the course of the last three decades, however, drug-trafficking, organised crime and high levels of violence and insecurity have deeply transformed this historical pattern with Mexico experiencing a clearcut process of militarization and becoming part of a…
Santa Muerte Devotion
In recent decades the cult of Santa Muerte has become a remarkable phenomenon in Mexico's popular religious landscape, from where it has migrated abroad. Due to the uncommon iconography of the robed skeleton and the association with criminality, the Santa Muerte cult has been the object of public controversy. This Element deconstructs mainstream views of Santa Muerte devotion by privileging the voices and practices of devotees. Counterintuitively…
Between fear, impunity, agency, and the (new) state, or how to think the Mexican predicament
Book Review Essay by Wil G. Pansters – Bootstrap Justice. The Search for Mexico’s Disappeared, by Janice K. Gallagher, Oxford University Press, 2023. – Sovereignty and Extortion. A New State Form in Mexico, by Claudio Lomnitz, Duke University Press, 2024. – The Two Faces of Fear. Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis, by Ana Villareal, Oxford University Press, 2024
Visibility and Iconic Aspirations of Santa Muerte Devotion in Mexico
This article examines the manifestations and meanings of the spectacularly increased visibility of Santa Muerte devotion in contemporary Mexico. This remarkable development acquires significance against the background of the cult's previous history of concealed devotion. To confront their existential uncertainties and vulnerabilities, present day Santa Muerte devotees engage in a range visual, performative, and spatial practices. Although empiric…
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