Agnes Mondragón-Celis | Mediations of Mexico's "Drug War"

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.

Further Reading:

Aretxaga, Begoña. 2005. States of Terror: Begoña Aretxaga’s essays, ed. Joseba Zulaika, Reno: University of Nevada Press

Fattal, Alexander. 2018. Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia, Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Siegel, James T. 1998. A New Criminal Type in Jakarta: Counter-revolution Today, Durham: Duke University Press