Listening to Sicarios : narcoviolence in Ciudad Juárez, 2008-2012 / Arturo Chacón Castañón, Robert McKee Irwin.
Chacón Castañón, Arturo, author.; Irwin, Robert McKee, 1962- author.
2022
HV6535.M6 C53 2022
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Title Listening to Sicarios : narcoviolence in Ciudad Juárez, 2008-2012 / Arturo Chacón Castañón, Robert McKee Irwin.
Author Chacón Castañón, Arturo, author.
ISBN 9783030941185 (electronic bk.)
3030941183 (electronic bk.)
9783030941178
3030941175
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94118-5
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-94118-5 doi
Call Number HV6535.M6 C53 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.152/40922
Summary Listening to Sicarios presents new insights into the lives of paid assassins of Mexicos drug trafficking syndicates from the perspectives of the assassins themselves. Based on an extraordinary series of ethnographic interviews carried out in the wake of the record levels of narcoviolence experienced in Ciudad Juarez between 2008 and 2012, this study analyzes the ways in which these young men interpret their actions across four key thematic axes: border infrastructures, youth and responsibility, masculinity and sentiment, and ethics: good vs. evil. It argues that sicarios follow a career path within a criminal corporate infrastructure that is especially robust in Mexican border cities. It also explores how sicarios understand youthful innocence in relation to adult accountability in the realm of violence that is frequently meted out by young men on other young men. It then analyzes sicarios expressions of feelings of power that may boost their sense of virility, as well as feelings of fear and regret that imply weakness. Finally, it examines how sicarios defend their personal integrity in the face of a public discourse that views their acts as savage.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 14, 2022).
Added Author Irwin, Robert McKee, 1962- author.
Series New directions in Latino American cultures.
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