Mob Lynching In Central Mexico

Mob Lynching In Central Mexico Presented by: Mr. LUNA Date: Oktober 7, 2022 Outline - Objective - Brief context of Puebla (central Mexico) - Lynching in Puebla - Lynching and Necro politics Objective - Present and characterize the raise of mob lynching in Puebla as results of the democratizations of violence in Mexico, but also as functional Necro politics strategy to maintain the social order and control. Brief Context Of Puebla - Puebla is one of the 33 States who conform Mexico - The 5th in population with 6.5 million, almost the half lives in the capital City of Puebla, - 64% of its population in poverty (top 4) - 9% of its population are indigenous (top 4) - In 2006 President Calderon, declare the "War on Drugs" to the organized crime and drug cartels, due frontal combat and militarization of the public security. - This result at least, 250,000 dead and more than 60,000 people missing and counting... Lynching - (Huggins, 1991: 4) • "The violent action of citizens against other citizens who have presumably committed a crime or violated a social norm” Necro Politics - Concept that refers to power, politics and death, specifically in the way life is managed • The political production of death. A policy where life is the object of calculation (Mbembe, 2011), • Practices that produce deaths through a systematic exercise of violence and terror against certain populations. • Death as specific technology (of colonial origin) for the management of the excluded (López Petit, 2014). The Origin Of Lynching According To Previous Literature: - Decomposition of social structures • (Pinto y López 2004; Alba y Kruijt, 2007, Santillán, 2008 Gamallo, 2014; Vilas, 2015;) - Perception of an absent state • - (Mendoza, 2008; Rodríguez y Mora, 2006 Increase of violence, crime and fear of crime • (De Souza 1991; Guerrero, 2000) What We Found - Increase and expansion of lynching in Puebla in the last years (600% between 2015 and 2019), - The violated social norm is always an alleged crime - The lynching and their ritualization share symbolic and communicational meaning, - Lynching is one strategy (of so many others) to deal with delinquency and the fear of crime, a way to punishment. The Origin Of Lynching According To Our Research In Puebla Between 2015 And 2019 - Democratizing of violence - Absent State • - Delinquency rates • - Selective weakness Failure on the monopoly of violence Structural violence • abandonment of the welfare state derived from neoliberal policies Characteristics Of Necro Politics (Hernandez & Pelayo, 2020) And Lynching: - Security policy • Of course, lynching are illegal, but the development of policies such as "vecino vigilante" (vigilante neighbor) leave security in the hands of individuals Selective weakness to maintain social order - Daily life of violence and fear • Context where life is worthless and less • Democratization of violence: Whoever, not only the State or the organized crime can be violent - Reinforcement of the figure of the enemy • The excluded lynch the excludes this remains the direction of violence in one clear direction, depoliticizing the social movements - The spectacle of violence • Performativity of the violented bodies as a "pedagogy of cruelty" (Segato, 2014) deterrent effect, but also a symbolic message to maintain social order, and to maintain punitive populism discourses - Exhibition and of the repression instruments • Discreet State violence, masked violence in this case, the instruments of repression present for absent