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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.