Since President Felipe Calderón declared his so-called “war on organized crime” in December 2006, the dominant discourse about violence in Mexico has created the idea of a battle against or disputes between organized crime groups, and it has framed victims of murders and disappearances as themselves criminals. Recent scholarship highlights the role that journalists and news outlets have played in bolstering this narrative; however, ethnographic fieldwork with Mexican journalists complicates the notion that they and others unknowingly or uncritically reaffirm dominant interpretations about violence. This article introduces the concept of recalcitrance to elucidate how, even when reporters actively work to investigate beyond official statements, fear contributes to the reproduction of dominant discourses and forecloses the possibility of creating different kinds of news, truths, and narratives.

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顽抗：墨西哥暴力事件的新闻被封锁

自费利佩·卡尔德龙总统于2006年12月宣布所谓的“向有组织犯罪宣战”以来，墨西哥有关暴力的主流话语创造了与有组织犯罪集团之间的斗争或争端的想法，并陷害了谋杀和失踪的受害者把自己当成罪犯。最近的学术研究强调了记者和新闻媒体在支持这种叙述方面所发挥的作用；然而，与墨西哥记者进行的民族志实地考察使这样一种观念变得复杂：他们和其他人在不知不觉中或不加批判地重申了对暴力的主流解释。本文介绍了顽抗的概念，以阐明即使记者积极努力调查官方声明之外的情况，