Eliana Cardenas Mendez holds a PhD in Social Anthropology, a master's degree in Psychoanalytic Theory, and a degree in Ethnology. ptcProfessor-researcher, tenured B, in the Department of Humanities and Languages at the University of Quintana Roo. Member of the National System of Researchers. Lines of generation and application of knowledge: anthropology of violence and anthropology of international migration. Visiting professor at national and international universities: El Colegio de San Luis, San Luis Potosí; unacarUniversidad Autónoma del Carmen, Campeche; cephci Peninsular Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, unam. ciesas Mexico, ciesas Peninsular, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba, Universidad de Costa Rica, Universidad del Valle, Colombia. He has done research and sabbatical stays at the Universidad del Valle, University of North Texas, usa uu. Author of books, coordinator of books and author of book chapters and articles on her lines of research. The false door to paradise. Suicide in Quintana Roo (2021) is his latest book on self-inflicted violence.

Realidades socioculturales

Flexible capitalism: biographical diagrams and suicide in Quintana Roo

  • Eliana Cardenas Mendez

This paper presents the impact of the development of the corporate tourism industry on the biographical diagrams of workers and its relationship with the high rates of suicide in Quintana Roo. With a qualitative methodology, it presents the phenomenon of suicide as a modality of social violence, which stems from a political rationality that is expressed in the abandonment and neglect of people by the national States. People, unable to solve structural problems in the personal sphere, decree the end of their lives by their own hand; suicide lodged in the plane of individual life leaves hidden the dynamics of power and the form of degradation of the subject from their own subjective intimacy.