#Narcomachine
Volume 8 | Issue 2 | 2010
Rossana Reguillo Guest Editor
This issue examines the logics, geographies, and grammars of narco-trafficking as an elusive yet ubiquitous social formation that we name the “narco-machine.”
Essays
- All Roads Lead North: A reading of news on migration through the figure of the coyote Amparo Marroquín Parducci
- An Aboriginal Youth Narconomy Kathleen Buddle
- Capitalismo gore: narcomáquina y performance de género Sayak Valencia Triana
- Noción de gasto y estética de precariedad en las representaciones literarias del narcotráfico Jungwon Park
- The Crónica of the Narco and the Transa According to Cristian Alarcón Gabriela Polit Dueñas
- The Narco-Machine and the Work of Violence Rossana Reguillo
- Yuppies, Junkies, and Mules Narcotic Subjectivities, Dialectic Images, and Contemporary Art in Córdoba (Argentina) Gustavo Blázquez
Multimedio
Dossier
- An Open Letter From a Post-National Artist to a Mexican Crime Cartel Boss Guillermo Gómez-Peña
- Antes Lolita Bosch
- Daily Life Magali Tercero
- Ética para Arón ROSA ESTHER JUÁREZ
- Los narcocorridos, expresiones culturales de la violencia Anajilda Mondaca Cota
- Martyrs Santiago Rueda
- Narco and Cinema: The War Over Public Debate in Mexico Carlos A. Gutiérrez
- Palas por pistolas Pedro Reyes
- Shouting in the Plaza ISABEL VERICAT
- The Narco in the Jabaz's La-La-Land Jabaz
- The Narcopolitical Imaginary William Garriott
- The Son of a Sinaloa Drug Lord in Search of a Normal Life Diego Enrique Osorno
- The Writing Lesson Juan de Dios Vázquez
Review Essays
- ***em***¿Quién mató a la llamita blanca?***em*** de Rodrigo Bellot Suzanna Reiss
- ***em***Adelante sin miedo***em*** de Gustavo Alvarez Marta Rivera García
- ***em***Ground Down to Nothing but Still Fighting***em*** de Abel González Melo Lillian Manzor and Austin Webbert
- ***em***La casa de la fuerza***em*** de Angélica Liddell Jorge Louraço Figueira
- Contaminating Crime and Immunizing Police Gangs: The Reemergence of Sovereign State Violence in ***em***Elite Squad***em*** Micaela Kramer
- The Cross Border Project: ***em***De Fuente Ovejuna a Ciudad Juárez***em*** Leticia Robles-Moreno
- Two Notes on Recent Films by Gianfranco Rosi and Natalia Almada Christopher Fraga
Book Reviews
- ***em***Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship***em*** de Idelber Avelar y Christopher Dunn Cristel M. Jusino Díaz
- ***em***Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggatón, and Revolution in Havana***em*** by Geoffrey Baker Ana Paulina Lee
- ***em***Constructing Global Enemies: Hegemony and Identity in International Discourses on Terrorism and Drug Prohibition***em*** by Eva Herschinger Sharada Balachandran Orihuela
- ***em***El cártel de Sinaloa***em*** de Diego Osorno Arturo Laris
- ***em***El hombre sin cabeza***em*** by Sergio González Rodríguez Silvia Spitta
- ***em***La secreta obscenidad de cada día; Telémaco / Sub-Europa, o, el padre ausente; El deseo de toda ciudadana; Querido coyote ; Tristán e Isolda***em*** de Marco Antonio de la Parra y Teresina Bueno Camila Ymay González Ortiz
- ***em***Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera***em*** by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Georgina Guzmán Nathalie Bragadir
- ***em***Me llaman desde allá: teatro y performance de la diáspora puertorriqueña de***em*** Rosalina Perales Isel Rodríguez
- ***em***No soy yo. Autobiografía, performance y los nuevos espectadores***em*** de Estrella de Diego Claudia Salazar
- ***em***Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe***em*** by Elaine A. Peña Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye
- ***em***Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America***em*** by William Garriott Harel Shapira
- ***em***Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil. Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies***em*** de Rafael de la Dehesa Marta Cabrera
- Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil by Alexander Edmonds Ashley Mears