Drug trafficking and gender: The masculinization of the subject and the configuration of dystopian projections of masculinity

Abstract

In Mexico, drug trafficking is part of the capitalist socioeconomic organization, a highly profitable activity for the criminal economy. In turn, it has become a sociocultural phenomenon that contributes to the production of bodies and subjectivities. The objective of this article is to contribute to reflections on the studies of masculinities in various contexts such as drug trafficking and its impact on the masculinization of the subject, by creating dystopian gender fictions. The reflections presented help to understand that the emergence of new masculine paradigms are not precisely linked to emancipatory processes. Because capitalism as a civilizational project by imposing an ideal type of human being, men find in drug trafficking and the excessive use of violence a tool of empowerment to comply with the imposed demands and be recognized as a subject, a human being. modern that fits perfectly into the capitalist economy, despite its dystopian representation.