FRAGMENTED HORIZONS Youth, violence, and everyday life in Acapulco Guerrero, México

This paper addresses the everyday experience of criminal violence among high school students in the city of Acapulco de Juarez in the state of Guerrero, in South Mexico. In particular, the research analyzes the role of violence in the formation of fields of experience and precarious horizons of expectations among this population, showing how through this process what we call fragmented horizons are constituted, within which the production of contradictory meanings around the experience of insecurity contributes to the processes of neoproletarianization in contemporary capitalism.