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CANCELLED: Revolutionary Legacies: Modalities of Agrarian and Religious Violence in Post-Re...Mexico

10 March 2020, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm

IHR and UCL Americas

CANCELLED DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION

This event is free.

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All

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Yes

Cost

Free

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IHR and UCL Institute of the Americas

Location

Seminar Room 105
UCL Institute of the Americas
51 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0PN
United Kingdom

After the Mexican revolution, violence became a tool available to a broad array of social actors. This paper examines the different ways in which conflicts over land and religion transformed the revolutionary legacy in the practices of violence. Rather than a mere aftermath of revolution, the conflicts that engulfed large parts of the country during the 1920s and 1930s had their own rules. Agraristas, rural guards, soldiers and cristeros shaped Mexican politics in different ways for decades to come. This paper will contrast those uses of violence and their unexpected consequences.

About the Speaker

Pablo Piccato

Pablo Piccato (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1997) is professor at the Department of History, Columbia University. His research and teaching focus on modern Mexico, particularly on crime, politics, and culture. He has taught as visiting faculty in universities in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and France, and has been director of Columbia’s Institute of Latin American Studies, Vice Chair of the Department of History, and University Senator. His books include City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931 (2001), The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere (2010), and A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico (2017). He is currently working on an overview of crime in Mexico during the twentieth century.