Articles about "collective"

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Mexicans in Exile and their political performance: a trench of resistance to the war on drug trafficking

  • May-ek Querales Mendoza

Keywords: collective, social knowledge, performance.

Wn this text I offer a reading of the role that collectivity can play in promoting encounters between people who have gone through circumstances of terror. The material presented here is the result of two extended research stays in El Paso, Texas; one of four months in 2012, and the other of one year in 2014. During these stays I conducted 19 in-depth interviews, participant observation and collaborative work with the organization Mexicans in Exile. Here I analyze under the approach of performance the work of denunciation that has been carried out from the organization; to propose that the membership has developed a political performance that, sustained in three processes of reconnection (subjective, community and political) promoted by the constant encounter and exchange, has allowed them to make their narratives visible and reach the international public sphere.