Humiliation and Shame. Forms of Statehood in a Counterinsurgency Context

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Irene Álvarez

Abstract

This is an ethnographic work that is based on experiences of humiliation and shame among the population of a small ranch located between the Sierra Madre del Sur and the Pacific Ocean, in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. In 1972, many people from that town were subjected to various processes of violence, at the hands of the Mexican army, for accusing them of being linked to guerrilla movements. In this context, the article gives special relevance to those violent practices that generated humiliation and shame among those who suffered them. It is argued that the exercise of violence, in its humiliating and shameful dimension, is a way of producing statehood.

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Álvarez, I. (2023). Humiliation and Shame. Forms of Statehood in a Counterinsurgency Context. Revista Stultifera, 6(2), 47–69. https://doi.org/10.4206/rev.stultifera.2023.v6n2-03
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Author Biography

Irene Álvarez, Secretaría de Gobernación del Gobierno de México, México.

Irene Álvarez es socióloga y etnógrafa. Es doctora en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades por
la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa (UAM-C).

Ha trabajado en El Colegio de México (COLMEX), en el Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) y en la University of Aberdeen.

Actualmente, se dedica a la gestión pública en materia de derechos humanos en la Secretaría de Gobernación del Gobierno de México.

Forma parte de la red de trabajo Noria Research.