Expelled from the earth: Victims and survivors of violence in Mexico
| When: | Friday, 06 May 2016 - Friday, 06 May 2016 |
| Where: | Braamfontein Campus East ACMS Seminar Room, via SH2191, South East Wing, 2nd Floor, Senate House |
| Start time: | 12:30 |
The African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) will host a lunchtime seminar on forms of violence in Mexico City.
Dr Margarita del C. Zarate Vidal from the Anthropology Department at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)-Iztapalapa, Mexico City will present this seminar.
This seminar will consider the ways in which drug trafficking and government policies of securitisation have led to an increasing wave of violence and the loss of many young lives in Mexico.
It will also explore categories such as survivors and victims, which are used both by the members of organisations challenging different forms of violence and widely within the social sciences.
In doing so it will examine the meaning of appealing to emotions (especially anger), suffering, the call for visibility for victims of violence, and the demand for “dignified justice”.
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