Dissenting the regime of horror and death: female youth groups in Ciudad Juarez (Mexico)

Abstract

The text shows some indings regarding the analysis of collective actions in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), such actions state a series of strategies in order to unveil and dissent from the regime of horror and death that has been characterized by violence during the last two decades. Through ethnographic work with the female groups Batallones Femeninos and Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa, the article states how organizational practices related to music or urban intervention through murals are strategies that promote life ethics regarding young women.