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The Subject Is Still There. Judicial Statements and Mexican Political-Military Organizations in the Seventies

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ID2170413
AuthorsAleida García Aguirre (0000-0002-3866-7199, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume30
Issue3
Pages349-370
Publication date2021-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569325.2021.1971957
OpenAlexW3209556555
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

This article analyses the judicial statements of members of political-military organizations that were obtained by agents of the national security and intelligence institution Dirección Federal de Seguridad (Federal Security Department; DFS) during the seventies. The analysis proposes that the conditions in which these documents were produced, as well as their dialogic and uneven nature, brought about narratives of the lives of the detainees that may be used as an index to understand certain aspects of these militants’ process of subjectivation. For example, the heterogeneity of their social origins and the diverse spaces about which they spoke, as a way to account for their political trajectory prior to their participation in armed militancy, and how they conceptualised both the organisation and their militancy. At the same time, it is also possible to find certain traces about the DFS agents who interrogated them: their bias against the militants, the aspects and features of the lives of the detainees that were inaudible to them. The corpus of DFS statements, as a discourse, provides a useful resource for problematising our conception of who the militants and agents of repression were, and for broadening the history of Mexico’s recent past

Dialogic · Institution · Library science · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Subject (documents · Law · Political Dynamics in Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration

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Citations per year0.5
Citation span2024 - 2024 (1)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 1

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