Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century / Jeannine E. Relly, Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González de Bustamante, Celeste, Author.

Relly, Jeannine E., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.) : 8 b&w photos, 1 b&w illus., 3 b&w maps

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Mott KTA Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award, Kappa Tau Alpha Tankard Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Knudson Latin America Prize, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Since 2000, more than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico. Today the country is one of the most dangerous in the world in which to be a reporter. In Surviving Mexico, Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly examine the networks of political power, business interests, and organized crime that threaten and attack Mexican journalists, who forge ahead despite the risks. Amid the crackdown on drug cartels, overall violence in Mexico has increased, and journalists covering the conflict have grown more vulnerable. But it is not just criminal groups that want reporters out of the way. Government forces also attack journalists in order to shield corrupt authorities and the very criminals they are supposed to be fighting. Meanwhile some news organizations, enriched by their ties to corrupt government officials and criminal groups, fail to support their employees. In some cases, journalists must wait for a green light to publish not from their editors but from organized crime groups. Despite seemingly insurmountable constraints, journalists have turned to one another and to their communities to resist pressures and create their own networks of resilience. Drawing on a decade of rigorous research in Mexico, Gonzalez de Bustamante and Relly explain how journalists have become their own activists and how they hold those in power accountable.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgments

Map

Introduction: Mexicos Peripheries as a Case Study for Violence against Journalists around the World

Part I. The Past, Place, and Politics of Violence against Journalists

Chapter 1. How Journalists Became Their Own Activists: A Historical Perspective

Chapter 2. Place Matters: The Promise and Limits of the Periphery

Chapter 3. Moving Targets and Perpetrators: Mercurial Violence, Ownership, and Changing Journalism Practices

Part II. Murdering the Messengers and Controlling the Message

Chapter 4. Red Light, Green Light: Strategies of Resistance among Journalists in the Peripheries

Chapter 5. The Personal and Familial Toll: Violence, Trauma, and Resilience

Chapter 6. Social Media, Digital Insecurity, and Journalists Safety

Part III. Structured and Unstructured Attempts to Save Journalism and Journalists

Chapter 7. Attempts to Intervene

Chapter 8. State Actors, Violence, and Resilience among Organized Crime Groups

Chapter 9. Women on the Frontline: Resistance and Resilience in Ciudad Juarez

Conclusion: Toward a More Secure Journalism Future

Appendix: Journalists Killed in Mexico 20002020, by Presidential Administration

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Apr 2025)

ISBN:

1-4773-2339-2

OCLC:

1352034217