Interpreting Contemporary Violence: Mexico, U.S.
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Research Cluster Academic Year
2014
Research Cluster Project Director(s)
Julie A Murphy Erfani, Director MA in Social Justice & Human Rights, Associate Professor of Political Science, New College
Luis F.B. Plascencia, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, New College
Luis F.B. Plascencia, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, New College
Description
This faculty group of scholars from the humanities and humanistic social sciences will interpret contemporary violence in Mexico-US relations from the perspective of horror as theorized by Hannah Arendt, political theorist; Adriana Cavarero, feminist theorist and political philosopher; and international relations theorists Francois Debrix and Alexander Barder. This cluster will employ the Arendt-Cavarero definition of horror viewed as the annihilation of embodiment as a means of eradicating the humanity of people. The focus shall be less upon the numbers of people killed than upon the manner in which people’s bodies and humanity are destroyed.