The Two Faces of Fear

Join Professor Ana Villarreal for a lecture on her new book, The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis (OUP, 2024). Drawing on qualitative fieldwork conducted during a major turf war in Monterrey, Mexico, the book traces the far-reaching impact of fear and violence on social ties, daily practices, and everyday spaces. It brings two seemingly contradictory faces of fear into focus--its ability to both isolate and concentrate people and resources deepening inequality. More broadly, the book puts forth a new approach to the study of emotion and provides tangible evidence of how quickly fear worsens inequality at the onset of crises beyond Mexico and the "war on drugs." 

The event is co-sponsored by the Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute, the Department of History, and the Department of Sociology.