The rise of necro/narco citizenship : belonging and dying in the southwest North American region / Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vélez-Ibañez, Carlos G., 1936- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Militarization--Mexican-American Border Region.

Militarization.

Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions--21st century.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Mexican-American Border Region--Economic conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

x, 287 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2025.

Summary:

"The Rise of Necro/Narco Citizenship offers a comprehensive exploration of the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural forces shaping the Southwest North American Region. Written by Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, this work introduces the innovative concept of necro/narco citizenship, shedding light on how violence, militarization, and socioeconomic disruptions create unique forms of existence and identity on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The necro/narco trans-state network emergence: wars of commission and omission

2. The rise of necrocitizenship and narcocitizenship

3. Belonging and dying: genesis and ethnographies of necrocitizenship in wars of commission and omission

4. Dislocations, corruption, impunity, and murder and the normalization of violence: genesis and ethnographies of narcocitizenship

5. The transborder dynamics on familial and quotidian realities of everyday life: here and there and here again, the Cosalá case / Nayeli Burgeño A.

6. Casualties and of war of commission and omission: youth at the crossroads of contentions and the struggle for their souls in the necro/narco dynamic of the southwest transborder region and beyond

7. Journaling in Sinaloa: between uncertainty and fear / Arturo Santamaría Gómez

8. The deterritorialization of the narcocorrido: landing on souls of young folk

Commentary and conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos G., 1936- Rise of necro/narco citizenship

ISBN:

9780816554690

0816554692

9780816554683

0816554684

OCLC:

1453619450