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The manuscript identifies modes of resistance that are rooted in the vulnerability and the victimization of transmigrants, journalists, and mourning relatives. The book questions stereotypical portrayals of victims of human rights violations as passive, silent, and lacking agency by exploring the political potential of their vulnerability. Vulnerability is analyzed in terms of exposure to violence and how transmigrants and journalists respond to a necropolitics that seeks to administer the criminal markets stemming from the War on Drugs and expand power by controlling territories and information. The concept of vulnerability is not necessarily linked to bodily harm. Vulnerability involves empathy, care, and visceral relations from broader communities of mourning—not only victims—in response to the paralyzing fear and terror imposed by state and criminal violence.
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Diego Rivera Hernández, R. (2020). Conclusion. In: Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51144-9_5
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