Experiences of Engagement and Detachment when Counting the Dead for Menos Días Aquí, a Civilian-Led Count of the Dead of Mexico's Drugs War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170238 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jamie-Leigh Ruse (Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215-236 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2016.1148018 |
| OpenAlex | W2316135806 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
By looking at the work of the Barcelona-based association for peace in Mexico, Nuestra Aparente Rendición (Our Apparent Surrender), I explore how people participating in a project which carries out a civilian-led national count of the dead as a result of the drugs war in Mexico, Menos Días Aquí (Fewer Days Here), narrate their experience of counting the dead as an interplay between engagement and detachment. Employing theoretical insights from recent anthropological work on detachment, insights taken from perspectivism and also anthropological insights into the nature of embodiment and narrative emplacement, I show how activists' accounts imply that an alternation between these states affects how they relate to and imagine the dead, forms an essential way of managing the way in which they experience their activism, and affects the way in which they deal with the realities they encounter as a result of counting. I argue that, when describing how people cope with violence knowledge, we need to overcome the dualities inherent in our tools of analysis, and begin to see engagement and detachment as an integrated aspect of experience which, in this case, are not only integral to being able to carry out the process of counting on an individual level, but also for the overall aims of the project itself to be met
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Curiosity · Epistemology · Literature · Narrative · Perspectivism · Sociology · Surrender · Terrorism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
The Powers of Distance
Affective Relations
The Make-Believe Space
Soul HuntersHunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs
Counting the Dead
Objectivity
Embodiment and experience
Notes from the Balkans
Soldiering Under Occupation
Soldiering Under Occupation
Drug War Mexico
Drug War Zone
An Anthropology of Names and Naming
“One Who Doesn't Know War, Doesn't Know Anything”
Geographies of responsibility
Regarding the pain of others
The Perception of the Environment
On the Move
The Perception of the Environment
Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism
Somatic Modes of Attention
How dogs dream
"Expanding "Henry
Producing affect
Latitudes of loss
I fell in love with Carlos the meerkat
Commemorating a suspended death
Social relationships and digital relationships
Witnessing history/embodying testimony
Economies of affect
Beyond the suffering subject
Feasting on People
Inhuman beings
Henry and I
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |