Although focused on Mexico, this forum will address broader issues that will interest political anthropologists.
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WHITHER MEXICO?
Autodefensas (vigilante movements) in MINT Mexico - Citizenship beyond the state?
Craig Suite, Floor 7, Sir Duncan Rice Library
University of Aberdeen
Thursday 13 March 5.45 - 7.30 pm
(with reception at 5.15 pm)
Full details at http://wp.me/PASsb-4v
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Speakers include Peter Watt (U Sheffield) co-author of Drug War Mexico, Benjamin Smith (U Warwick) historian and writer on contemporary Mexico, and Trevor Stack (U Aberdeen) CISRUL Director and anthropologist of Mexico
Co-sponsored by Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL), Inter-Disciplinary Approaches to Violence (IDAV), Department of Hispanic Studies, Aberdeen Latin America and Caribbean Network (ALACN), and the College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Aberdeen
In 2013 Mexico signed into law an important though controversial set of structural reforms, one of which opens the way for foreign companies to profit from Mexico's oil holdings. Articles in magazines such as The Economist have lauded Mexico's reforms, and economist Jim O'Neill tipped Mexico as one of the MINT countries to follow hard on the heels of the BRICK countries. Yet the same Mexican government is struggling to contain armed uprisings of self-defence (autodefensa) or vigilante groups, which target the mafia organisations that the government has been unable to dismantle, despite declaring in 2006 a "war on drug trafficking". The situation bears comparison to Mexico twenty years ago when President Salinas signed NAFTA, auguring Mexico's entry into the First World, on the day that the Zapatistas rose up in arms.
Despite being focused on Mexico, the forum will raise broader issues for debate. The forum will examine a situation that is all too familiar in the world today: a country that has gone through a transition to democracy and shown promising economic growth, finds itself the setting for violent protest and struggle. What is also common is that the protest, however violent, is framed in terms of citizenship, although one that is not reducible to the state.
Please click on http://wp.me/PASsb-4v for full details of the forum.
Note that CISRUL is also offering:
- PhD studentships in the area of citizenship, civil society and rule of law
- Visiting Fellowships for the month of June
- funding to participate in a workshop and PhD summer school on Political Community, 24-27 June
See our blog http://cisrul.wordpress.com for further details.
The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
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