What Gets Inside: Violent Entanglements and Toxic Boundaries in Mexico City
What Gets Inside: Violent Entanglements and Toxic Boundaries in Mexico City
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里面有什么：墨西哥城的暴力纠葛和有毒边界
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2017
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E. S. Roberts
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E. S. Roberts
纠缠是当代人类学以及科学技术研究中的一个关键概念。通过追踪那些赋予物体看似稳定边界的偶然且不确定的关系，纠缠使我们能够明白这些边界是如何限制我们更好地认识世界的能力的。本文在墨西哥城一个工人阶级社区——佩里菲里科社区（Colonia Periferico）的当代生活背景下，以及一个研究该社区居民的纵向环境健康项目中，对纠缠这一概念进行了探讨。虽然纠缠有其用途，但工人阶级的身体与诸如北美自由贸易协定（NAFTA）和持续的禁毒战争等全球化进程的纠缠表明，这一概念存在局限性。对于工人阶级居民来说，生活已经与跨国资本的暴力肆虐所塑造的长期经济和政治不稳定深深地纠缠在一起。相反，我追溯了佩里菲里科社区的居民是如何通过有毒的边界来确保稳定的，这些边界保护性地阻挡了警察和公共卫生监管的干扰性影响。佩里菲里科社区的边界，包括一个充满污水的水坝、水泥粉尘和高速公路废气，显然与居民的身体相互纠缠。它们进入了身体内部。这些纠缠是为一种显著的稳定所付出的代价，在这种稳定中，孩子们可以在街上玩耍，对吸毒成瘾和残疾居民的悉心照料是日常生活的一部分。那么，为了更好地认识世界，我们可能需要通过考虑制造边界的实践以及边界所提供的东西，来使对纠缠的不确定性的赞美性呼吁变得复杂。
Entanglement is a key concept in contemporary anthropology and science and technology studies. By tracing the contingent and uncertain relations that endow objects with seemingly stable boundaries, entanglement allows us to see how such boundaries restrict our ability to know the world better. This article examines the concept of entanglement in the context of contemporary life in a working-class Mexico City neighborhood, Colonia Periferico, and a longitudinal environmental health project that studies the neighborhood’s residents. While entanglement has its uses, the entanglement of working-class bodies with globalizing processes like NAFTA and the ongoing War on Drugs shows that the concept has its limits. For working-class residents, life is already deeply entangled with chronic economic and political instability shaped through the violent ravages of transnational capital. Instead, I trace how residents in Colonia Periferico secure stability through toxic boundaries that protectively keep out the disruptive effects of police and public health surveillance. Colonia Periferico’s boundaries, which include a sewage-filled dam, cement dust, and freeway exhaust, are clearly entangled with residents’ bodies. They get inside. These entanglements are the price paid for a remarkable stability, in which children can play on the streets and attentive care for drug-addicted and disabled residents is part of everyday life. With the goal of knowing the world better, then, we might complicate celebratory calls for the uncertainty of entanglement by taking into account both the practices that make boundaries and what boundaries have to offer.