#Metoo, digital mobilization in Mexico:

Support, criticism and opposition in the Civil Sphere

Authors

  • Luz Angela Cardona Cardona Acuña, Doctora Visiting Researcher. Center for Cultural Sociology. Yale University. Nov/ 2019 a Aug/2020.
  • Nelson Arteaga Botello, Doctor Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2660-7877

Keywords:

movilización feminista, Metoo, Esfera Civil, Justicia, Acoso

Abstract

The controversy in the Mexican media is analyzed for the alleged relationship of the #Metoo movement with the suicide of a musician accused of harassment. This controversy opened a debate on the relevance of the anonymous report of the harassment, its legal, social and personal implications, both for the victims and for the accused. Following the theoretical-methodological proposal of cultural sociology, a review was made of the opinion columns that dealt with the subject. The movement was interpreted in the media as: a) an expression of legitimate justice; b) a justified manifestation but contaminated by rancor and revenge; c) as an expression that sought from the beginning the digital lynching of alleged harassers. This dispute allows us to understand the challenges of feminist justice in cases of violence against women.

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Author Biographies

Luz Angela Cardona Cardona Acuña, Doctora, Visiting Researcher. Center for Cultural Sociology. Yale University. Nov/ 2019 a Aug/2020.

Luz Angela Cardona is a research doctor in Social Sciences with a mention in Sociology from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Mexico headquarters. Visiting Researcher of the Center for Cultural Sociology of Yale University from November 2019 to August 2020. Fellow of the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico from 2008 to 2010 and from 2016 to 2019. In 2010 she won the award for best Scientific poster at the X Meeting of SOMEDE. Teacher and member of the Registry of Specialists in Gender and Feminism Studies of the Center for Research and Gender Studies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her most recent works have been published in Politics and Government, the Mexican Journal of Sociology, Noésis Magazine of Social Sciences and Humanities, and Sociologica.

Nelson Arteaga Botello, Doctor, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences

Nelson Arteaga Botello is a doctor in Sociology, a research professor at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Mexico. Member of the National System of Researchers, Level III. Iberoamerican Prize for Social Sciences (2010). Recent publications: "The Populist Transition and the Civil Sphere in Mexico". In: J.C. Alexander, G. Sciortino and P. Kivisto (eds.), Populism in the Civil Sphere. Cambridge: Polity. (2020). "Solidary Cuisine: Las Patronas Facing the Central American Migratory Flow". In: C. Tognato, N. Jaworsky and J.C. Alexander (Eds.) The Courage for Civil Repair. Narrating the Righteous in International Migration, Cambridge: Palgrave-Macmillan. (2020). "Strong program cultural sociology and Latin America", American Journal of Cultural Sociology, (2020) (with Carlo Tognato).

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Cardona Cardona Acuña, L. A., & Arteaga Botello, N. (2021). #Metoo, digital mobilization in Mexico:: Support, criticism and opposition in the Civil Sphere. Espiral Estudios Sobre Estado Y Sociedad (eISSN: 2594-021X), 28(81). Retrieved from https://espiral.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/EEES/article/view/7191 (Original work published May 4, 2021)

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