Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2021
Journal / Book Title
Latin American Research Review
Abstract
The widespread violence in Mexico by state and nonstate actors since the government launched a military strategy against drug cartels in 2006 has generated demands for justice, including spaces of mourning and commemoration that recognize hundreds of thousands of Mexican nationals and migrants from other countries who have been killed or disappeared. Creating memorial spaces for ongoing forms of violence whose perpetrators and victims are hard to define has proven difficult from a bureaucratic, political, and aesthetic perspective. This article examines and contrasts three commemorative and transformative memorial interventions to show that in a context that lacks a clear transition and access to justice, memory activists respond to the state in a playing field that is not simply concerned with a politics of memory—who gets to decide how to remember the past—but with delineating the past from both the present and the future in the first place: a politics of time.
DOI
10.25222/larr.534
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Délano Alonso, Alexandra and Nienass, Benjamin, "Memory activism and mexico’s war on drugs: Countermonuments, resistance, and the politics of time" (2021). Department of Political Science and Law Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 63.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/polysci-law-facpubs/63
Rights
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0).
Published Citation
Alonso, A. D., & Nienass, B. (2021). Memory activism and Mmexico’s war on drugs: Countermonuments, resistance, and the politics of time. Latin American Research Review, 56(2), 353–370. https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.534