Fieldnotes from Mexico (eBook, ePUB) - Ohlson, Olof
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This experimental monograph is a portrayal of contemporary Mexican activism, written to voice activists' experiences and perspectives when protesting state, criminal, and capitalist violence. It consists of edited fieldnotes about Mexican activist movements involved in the "indignation for Ayotzinapa," which was a popular uprising protesting state violence. The book covers a period of 18 months during 2014-15, and a short field stay in October to November in 2022. It is told through (i) short biographies of activists, (ii) transcribed speeches, interviews, protest songs and slogans, and (iii)…mehr

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This experimental monograph is a portrayal of contemporary Mexican activism, written to voice activists' experiences and perspectives when protesting state, criminal, and capitalist violence. It consists of edited fieldnotes about Mexican activist movements involved in the "indignation for Ayotzinapa," which was a popular uprising protesting state violence. The book covers a period of 18 months during 2014-15, and a short field stay in October to November in 2022. It is told through (i) short biographies of activists, (ii) transcribed speeches, interviews, protest songs and slogans, and (iii) commemorative stories written in first person as if told by Mexico's many missing people as retold by their surviving family and memorized at a memorial site in Mexico City.

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Olof Ohlson is currently a FAPESP postdoctoral fellow at The Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). He is the author of Mexico's Rebellious Afterlives: Armed Uprisings and Activism in the Narco War (Lexington Books, 2022), and director of the ethnographic documentary Walking with the Dead: a film about the Day of the Dead in Mérida and San Andrés Míxquic (2024), available at Vimeo. Olof holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from The Uni- versity of Edinburgh from 2020, a MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science from 2011, both in the United Kingdom, and a BSc from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, from 2010. His research interests include politics (activism, social movements, grass-roots democracy) and comparative religion (the Day of the Dead and Transcendental Meditation), with an eye to experimental ethnography. He is the founder and co-organi- zer of the research group Estudos em Antropologia da Religião (Studies in Anthropology of Religion, EAR) at UFSCar, and also a member of Grupo de Estudo e Pesquisa sobre Relações de Poder, Conflitos, Socialidades jointly run by anthropologists at USP and UFSCar. At UFSCar, he most recently taught the course ANT 64 The Anthropology of Religion. He is a Swedish national, living and working in Brazil since 2018. Olof has previously written for several Swedish media outlets and has been a contributing radio essayist for Sveriges Radio P1 (Swedish Radio Channel One).