Using an ongoing land conflict in Ciudad Juárez as a case study, I seek to show how maquiladora decision makers stabilize a regional development model even at times of extreme social and economic crisis. I argue that the current killings associated with drug trafficking play an ambivalent role in the reproduction of order in Juárez. At first sight, the violence is represented as a threat, unmasking as it does a regional development model as failure. Decision makers accordingly respond by doing everything possible to distance the maquiladora industry from the violence. On the one hand, this is being done by familiar means, not unlike in previous moments of crises. But on the other hand the events around Lomas del Poleo additionally assume a new quality, as maquiladorization goes hand in hand with an explicit strategy of spatial distanciation, integrating places and people that have hitherto been linked only marginally to the industry. And it is here that the narco-related violence plays different roles: as a convenient veil that allows what might be termed ‘ordinary’ assertions of brute force to be used under the cover of extraordinary, excessive, violence; and as a welcome excuse in moments of emergency that legitimize violent measures for the sake of a greater good.
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机译:我以华雷斯城发生的持续土地冲突为案例研究,试图显示马其拉多的决策者如何稳定区域发展模式,即使在极端的社会和经济危机时期也是如此。我认为,目前与毒品贩运有关的杀戮在华雷斯的秩序再现中起着矛盾的作用。乍一看,暴力被表示为威胁,因为它将区域发展模式作为失败而暴露出来。因此,决策者做出了一切可能的回应,以使马加拉多工业远离暴力。一方面,这是通过熟悉的方式完成的,与以往的危机时刻不同。但是另一方面,Lomas del Poleo周围的事件又具有新的品质,因为机械加工与明确的空间脱节策略并驾齐驱,融合了迄今与该行业仅有微弱联系的场所和人员。在这里,与麻醉药品有关的暴力扮演着不同的角色:作为一种方便的面纱,允许在非同寻常,过度,暴力的掩盖下使用所谓的“蛮力”蛮力主张;作为紧急情况下的可喜借口,为了更大的利益,将暴力措施合法化。
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