Hector Amaya examines how the dramatic escalation of drug violence in Mexico in 2008 transformed how people discussed violence and the rules of participation in the public sphere.
Prologue vii
Introduction. Trafficking, Publicness, and Violence 1
1. Prelude to Two Wars 25
2. Almost Failing: Violence, Space, and Discourse 57
3. Censoring Narcoculture: Mexican Republicanism and Publicity 91
4. Narcocorridos in the USA: Deterritorialization and the Business of Authenticity 124
5. Bloody Blogs: Publicity and Opacity 158
6. Trust: The Burden of Civics 192
Conclusion. Publicity's Contingent Insularity 213
Notes 225
References 235
Index 251
Hector Amaya is Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California and author of Citizenship Excess: Latino/as, Media, and the Nation and Screening Cuba: Film Criticism as Political Performance during the Cold War.