Encountering knowledge production: the International Crisis Group and the making of Mexico’s security crisis
Encountering knowledge production: the International Crisis Group and the making of Mexico’s security crisis
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遭遇知识生产:国际危机组织与墨西哥安全危机的形成
DOI:
10.1080/01436597.2014.924069
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
2
通讯作者:
Markus
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作者:
Markus Hochmüller;Markus
After nearly seven years of ever-escalating violence related to the Mexican ‘war on drugs’, in 2013 Mexico entered the International Crisis Group’s (icg) ‘observatory’ of countries facing a violent crisis. In this article we critically interrogate this ‘Mexican turn’ of the icg, as well as its accompanying forms of crisis knowledge production. By applying analytical insights from critical policy analysis and postcolonial security studies, we highlight the Western-centrism embedded in the icg’s perspective on Mexico’s security crisis. In analysing this perspective on questions of drug trafficking, statehood and indigenous justice, we demonstrate how this Western-centrism produces a de-politicising and overly technocratic crisis narrative. The article concludes that, through its Western-centric ‘Mexican turn’, the icg has been able to reaffirm its standing as a uniquely influential and internationally recognised crisis expert by showcasing its awareness of newly emerging crisis situations, as well as its possession of the necessary crisis-solving expertise.
DOI:
10.1057/9780230355576
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2012
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作者:
Müller;Markus-Michael
通讯作者:
Markus-Michael