Agnes Mondragón-Celis | Mediations of Mexico's "Drug War"
Channel: Human Stories
Date: 2021-08-03

Agnes Mondragón-Celis from the University of Chicago speaks about how the War on Drugs is represented in mass media in Mexico.

Agnes Mondragón-Celis is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her doctoral research engages with the aesthetic, affective, and cultural formation of contemporary forms of warfare, such as the global War on Drugs, through mass media and its circulation. Her dissertation, Mediations of War: Formations of Statehood and Criminality in Mexico’s “War on Drug Trafficking,” explores the Mexican state’s fraught attempts to both subjugate the figure of drug trafficking and disentangle itself from the notion of criminality in the eyes of its publics.

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