Mexico at a Crossroads: Political Crisis, Civic Agency, Culture

Date: 

Wednesday, April 1, 2015, 10:30am to 12:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South S020 Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge Street

 

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/mexico-crossroads-political-crisis-civic-agency-and-culture

The Ayotzinapa disappearances, part of a phenomenal surge in violence that has left Mexico with 100,000 dead and 25,000 disappeared, have prompted non-stop national and international protests against organized crime, government corruption and impunity.

 

Renowned public intellectuals, anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz and writer Pedro Ángel Palou, will discuss the role of culture in these events, to raise wider questions about what makes for effective political mobilization and renewed civic agency

 

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