Abstract

CHACON CHAVEZ, Andrea Nathalie. Embodied “Juvenicidio” (Young-killings): Young People Injured by Firearms in Mexico. CONfines relacion. internaci. ciencia política [online]. 2021, vol.17, n.32, pp.11-36.  Epub Jan 29, 2024. ISSN 1870-3569.  https://doi.org/10.46530/cf.vi32/cnfns.n32.p11-36.

Violence is part of the daily life in Mexico, with young men from precarious contexts being its main fatal and non-fatal victims. This article presents quantitative and qualitative evidence that dimensions and apprehends this dynamic, where young men are constructed as the enemy to be fought by the State, constituting the juvenicidio -young-killings- (Valenzuela, 2016). It is proposed that the juvenicidio goes beyond death; it is embodied in the victim (objectively and subjectively), since the gunshot injury intensifies the situation of defenselessness generating a social death. Building on the concept of necropolitics (Mbembe, 2011), it goes beyond the determination about life and death, it also determines who lives and how they deserve to live.

Keywords : embodied juvenicidio (young-killings); injured by bullets; youth; firearms.

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