How does this visualization (including caption) advance ethnographic insight? What message | argument | sentiment | etc. does this visualization communicate or represent?

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Shahab Albahar's picture
February 29, 2020

The sentiment I get from the critical commentary and the essay is the alcoholism in Urban Guatemala is causal for endemic aberrations and an impediment to societal progression. I would caution against overarching force-causing claims by perhaps endorsing a "formation stories" approach elaborated by historical sociologists Daniel Hirschman and Ariail Reed. For example, how does postcolonialism, queer assemblages, and neoliberalism intersect with violence and alcoholism in Urban Guatemala?

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Nadine Tanio's picture
February 28, 2020

This visualization is a layered, in-your-face, critique of alcoholism and masculinity in Guatemala. The artist transforms the El Borracho Loteria card into this triptych of a dick-head that suggests alcoholism is prevalent across socio-economic status. Mohamed situates this image within a discussion of toxic masculinity in Guatemala. . His interpretation contextualizes this image as social-critique showing its multifaceted connections to art and male culture. 

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