Salvador Salazar Gutierrez es doctor en Estudios Científico-Sociales por el iteso, integrante del snii nivel ii, su línea de investigación: culturas juveniles y procesos socioculturales en la frontera norte.

Coloquios interdisciplinarios

Comment on the colloquium "Essays on the abyss: politics of the gaze, violence, technopolitics" by
  • Rossana Reguillo
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The Event Barges In: The Horror of Modern Violence and the Erosion of the Social Pact at Mexico’s Northern Border

  • Salvador Salazar Gutierrez

In the last two decades the border region in the north of the country, Ciudad Juárez in particular, has faced a landscape dominated by various types of violence tied not only to the presence of drug trafficking and organized crime but also to that generated by the punitive intervention on the part of the Mexican state. In this sense, rethinking the explanatory frameworks in relation to theoretical-methodological approaches has constituted one of the key tasks in contexts where, in the words of Rossana Reguillo, fear takes possession of a present in crisis and as an expression of a collapsed landscape.