Trafficking - Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States

Hector Amaya examines how the dramatic escalation of drug violence in Mexico in 2008 transformed how people discussed violence and the rules of participation in the public sphere.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue  vii
Introduction. Trafficking, Publicness, and Violence  1
1. Prelude to Two Wars  25
2. Almost Failing: Violence, Space, and Discourse  57
3. Censoring Narcoculture: Mexican Republicanism and Publicity  91
4. Narcocorridos in the USA: Deterritorialization and the Business of Authenticity  124
5. Bloody Blogs: Publicity and Opacity  158
6. Trust: The Burden of Civics  192
Conclusion. Publicity's Contingent Insularity  213
Notes  225
References  235
Index  251

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Hector Amaya is Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California and author of Citizenship Excess: Latino/as, Media, and the Nation and Screening Cuba: Film Criticism as Political Performance during the Cold War.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Hector Amaya
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781478008040
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0804-0
• Seiten: 280
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Allgemeines, Lexika; Soziologie, Amerikanische Geschichte, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico