In the past two decades, drug-treatment centers called anexos (annexes) have proliferated throughout Mexico. Run and attended by the working poor, anexos’ therapeutic practices blend criminal violence and religious ritual, and they are widely condemned as abusive and unethical. Based on several years of ethnographic research in Mexico City, this article situates anexos within a larger historical frame and examines how they conjure and rework contemporary forms of affliction through a novel form of confessional practice. It shows how confession simultaneously reproduces pervasive images of violence while also disclosing projects of communitarian survival that are ethically affirmative. In doing so, this article demonstrates that anexos’ confessional practices constitute an aesthetics and politics of recovery that calls for a rethinking of criminal, religious, and therapeutic domains.

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忏悔社区

在过去的二十年里，被称为anexos （附件）的戒毒治疗中心在墨西哥各地激增。anexos的治疗实践由工薪阶层的穷人经营和参与，融合了犯罪暴力和宗教仪式，它们被广泛谴责为虐待和不道德的。本文基于墨西哥城多年的民族志研究，将anexos置于一个更大的历史框架中，并探讨他们如何通过一种新颖的忏悔实践形式来召唤和改造当代形式的痛苦。它展示了忏悔如何同时再现普遍存在的暴力形象，同时也披露了道德上肯定的社群主义生存计划。在此过程中，本文证明了anexos的忏悔实践构成了一种美学和康复政治，需要重新思考犯罪、宗教和治疗领域。