Policies of fear and local resistances

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ID15450359
AuthorsPilar Calveiro (0000-0001-5604-3497, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume15
Issue4
Pages35-35
Publication date2015-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAthenea Digital Revista de pensamiento e investigación social (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1578-8946 • E-ISSN: 2014-4539
PublisherUniversitat Autonoma de Barcelona (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.5565/rev/athenea.1577
OpenAlexW2226403697
LanguageEN
Citations received8

In this text, I begin with maintaining that the use of fear as an instrument of population control is a constitutive element of Neoliberal governance. Also, I suggest that current violence, because of its characteristics, is more easily observable and understandable in local environments, which would explain that the most important resistances also come from these spaces. For this purpose, I analyse the case of the state of Guerrero, in México, focusing on the surge and path of the Regional Organizer of Community Authorities (Coordinadora Regional de Autoridades Comunitarias, CRAC) and, more recently, in the same territory, the forceful disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa and the forms of mobilization and organization that followed this tragedy. I attempt to point out the consistency in the policies of fear by public-private networks, which connect legal and illegal circuits, as well as the strategies used to overcome fear, display resistance and, mainly, build power and politics from the margins

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