Trafficking - Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States (Paperback)

In Trafficking Hector Amaya examines how the dramatic escalation of drug violence in Mexico in 2008 prompted new forms of participation in public culture in Mexico and the United States. He contends that, by becoming a site of national and transnational debate about the role of the state, this violence altered the modes publicness could take, transforming assumptions about freedom of expression and the rules of public participation. Amaya examines the practices of narcocorrido musicians who take advantage of digital production and distribution technologies to escape Mexican censors and to share music across the US-Mexico border, as well as anonymous bloggers whose coverage of trafficking and violence from a place of relative safety made them public heroes. These new forms of being in the public sphere, Amaya demonstrates, evolved to exceed the bounds of the state and traditional media sources, signaling the inadequacy of democratic theories of freedom and publicness to understand how violence shapes public discourse.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Hector Amaya
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-0804-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Drugs trade / drug trafficking Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4780-0804-0
Barcode:	9781478008040

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