Details — Faculty Lecture Series Talk by Shannan Mattiace — March 8
| Date: 3/8 | Time: 7 pm |
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The March talk in the Karl W. Weiss ’87 Faculty Lecture Series for 2016-17 will be held on Wednesday, March 8, at 7 p.m. in Campus Center 301/302. Shannan Mattiace, professor in the Department of Political Science, will present “Indigenous Resistance to Drug Violence in Mexico.” A more detailed description of the talk follows.
One of the most surprising observations in Mexico’s unprecedented wave of inter-cartel wars is the relatively low levels of violence taking place in the country’s indigenous regions. Municipalities with a greater share of indigenous population are significantly less likely to experience outbreaks of inter-cartel violence. Yet, because there is important variation in levels of drug violence across indigenous municipalities, our central goal in this paper is to explain why some indigenous communities have become contested territories for violent criminal wars while others have not. We argue that communities with a long history of indigenous mobilization that have developed regional ethnic autonomy regimes experience lower levels of criminal violence than those without mobilization networks and no regional autonomous institutions.