Notice Board

The U of L Anthropology Club in partnership with the Department of Anthropology is pleased to present How to Bribe a Police Officer: Negotiating Transnational Carceral Regimes and other Legacies of Criminal Anthropology with Brenda Garcia.

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 3 p.m.
Online via Zoom: uleth.zoom.us/j/97978327728

This talk examines the collaboration between Mexico and the United States to implement surveillance infrastructures that range from broken window’s policing to drug prohibition policies to secure the city today. I analyze how security infrastructures from the United States that meant to police racialized communities in the US, worked in Mexico City despite Mexico having different processes and histories of racialization. I demonstrate that these security infrastructures function in Mexico City because Mexico and the US share similar carceral knowledge. By examining the history of securitization, across geographies, temporalities, and technologies, I argue how that security infrastructure establishes a criminal legal system beyond the legal text itself. This talk is based on my dissertation project that examines how life is secured through the death of others in Mexico City’s increasingly surveilled and militarized urban geographies.