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Watchfulness shapes many Chicanxs' and other People of Color's
everyday lives in San Diego. Experiencing racist discrimination can
lead to becoming vigilant, which frames their subjectivity.
Focusing particularly on Chicanxs, we show how they seek to
intervene against structural inequalities and threats in their
lives, such as by re-claiming space, consciousness raising,
participating in protests, and healing practices. We argue that
contestations surrounding belonging create particularly watchful
selves and that this is a significant aspect of borderland
lifeworlds more broadly. The book advances the Anthropology of
borders, coloniality, subjectivity, and race, as well as
contributing to Chicano and Latino Studies, and Urban Studies.
Pushing the boundaries of conventional approaches, this book is
methodologically innovative by including team fieldwork, digital
ethnography, and illustrative work by a local artist. It fills a
gap in Security Studies by examining peer-to-peer vigilance beyond
top-down surveillance and bottom-up "sousveillance," and expanding
previous understandings of watchfulness as an ambivalent practice
that can also express care and contribute to community building, as
well as representing a "way of life."
Mexico has become notorious for crime-related violence, and the
efforts of governments and national and international NGOs to
counter this violence have proven largely futile. Citizens against
Crime and Violence studies societal responses to crime and violence
within one of Mexico’s most affected regions, the state of
Michoacán. Based on comparative ethnography conducted over twelve
months by a team of anthropologists and sociologists across six
localities of Michoacán, ranging from the most rural to the most
urban, the contributors consider five varieties of societal
responses: local citizen security councils that define security and
attempt to influence its policing, including by self-defense
groups; cultural activists looking to create safe 'cultural' fields
from which to transform their social environment; organizations in
the state capital that combine legal and political strategies
against less visible violence (forced disappearance, gender
violence, anti-LGBT); church-linked initiatives bringing to bear
the church’s institutionality, including to denounce 'state
capture'; and women’s organizations creating 'safe' networks
allowing to influence violence prevention.
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