@article{ref1, title="Mexico: the binary narrative of the performance of self-defense groups in Tierra Caliente Michoacán", journal="Sage open", year="2018", author="Pérez, Miguel Ángel Vite", volume="8", number="4", pages="e2158244018802884-e2158244018802884", abstract="Social symbolic action is interpreted through binary narrative as a discourse constructed by motives, relationships, and institutions. This discourse is based on a distinction between the pure and the impure, the good and the bad, and the sacred and the profane, and it is linked with the cultural imaginary that lends a particular meaning to social acts. In this case, the analysis of the binary narrative of self-defense groups in Tierra Caliente (Michoacán) allowed interpretations to be made regarding regional armed social action in a national setting, shaped by the government discourse that blames organized crime for national public insecurity.

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