La ‘justicia por mano propia’ como un performance moral en Colombia y México: Perspectivas analíticas para un modelo pragmático de la ‘violencia’ en la teoría social contemporánea

‘Law Into One’s Own Hands’ as a Moral Performance in Colombia and Mexico: Analytical Perspectives for a Pragmatic Model of ‘Violence’ in Contemporary Social Theory proposes a performative model of analysis of the facts typified as “justice into one’s own hands”. It questions the notion of “violence” as an explanatory factor and, in contrast, considers that these manifestations can be analyzed as social dramatizations that produce and recreate a problematized image of “us”. Different constatative narratives, dissimilar normative valuations and accusatory normative perspectives are then traced in order to understand the way in which these phenomena are constituted as significant social facts in two study units (Mexico and Colombia).

Keywords:
law into one’s own hands; violence; legitimacy of violence; stigmatization; criminalization