社会学助理教授
《装甲之城：墨西哥都市的暴力与隔离
As a Junior 新濠影汇赌场 Fellow at the 波士顿大学 Center for the Humanities during the Spring semester of 2020, I will work on my book manuscript The Armored City: Violence and Seclusion in the Mexican Metropolis. This is an ethnography of how the upper class in Monterrey, one of the wealthiest cities in Latin America and my hometown, reorganized all aspects of everyday life within the municipality of San Pedro at the height of a wave of gruesome violence linked to the Mexican “war on drugs.” While research on urban wealth, fear and security tends to focus on how privately secured gated communities fragment a metropolis, I demonstrate that the wealthy may also rely on the state to concentrate private and public resources within one municipality to the detriment of the larger metropolitan area. As violence escalated, the wealthy municipality of San Pedro became an “armored city” in discourse, and a more segregated and heavily policed city within a city in practice. I argue that the collision of extreme violence and inequality that prompted the intensified seclusion of San Pedro exemplifies a broader pattern of seclusion taking form in Latin America—the most violent and unequal region in the world. I hope this book written with American college students in mind will bring greater awareness to the consequences of global drug prohibition and lax gun laws south of the border, as well as the ways in which violence contributes to exacerbate the growing gap between the wealthy and the poor in numerous cities around the world.