Abstract

PEREZ, Elisa Godínez. “If You Really Want to Hit Someone, Don't Call Us, Call Us after You Hit Them and Leave.” Taking the Law into Own Hands in Mexico City. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2020, n.73, pp.73-82. ISSN 0123-885X.  https://doi.org/10.7440/res73.2020.06.

In this article, I analyze the experience of a neighborhood group that united to tackle insecurity in Mexico City. I draw on the perspective of the ethnography of the State and, in particular, the “languages of statehood” to examine the phenomenon of self-justice, which beyond being an act of citizen transgression that challenges the State, is an unintended or deliberate consequence of the actions or omissions of government agents, typical of the management of insecurity and violence on the margins of the State.

Keywords : Ethnography of the State; margins of the State; Mexico City; self-administered justice.

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