Después de Lucía: la agudización del ‘bullying’ en México. ¿Un problema añejo sin resolver o un fenómeno emergente de exclusión social?

• In Event: Peru and Mexico Against Old and Emerging Challenges: An Overview of Social Unevenness and Exclusion

Abstract

‘Bullying’ among students at the basic and intermediate levels in Mexico is not a new occurrence. Nonetheless, it has only received notoriety until recently. Entities such as the Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDH) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and institutions of higher education such as the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) have presented alarming statistics and reports that situate Mexico as the country with highest levels of school violence. This scourge primarily constrains males in marginal areas, both in urban and rural spaces; however, young female and others who attend private schools are not immune to this type of exclusion and harassment. Cinema is among the few cultural products that have shown interest in this phenomenon, most recently, the film Después de Lucía (2012) by Michel Franco. This study will examine the narrative and cinematic techniques employed by Franco to distance audiences from the disturbing events that Ale(jandra) experiences, and contribute to the discussion surrounding this paradigm in a society were violence has become commonplace and has grown increasingly undaunted to this type of adamant behavior among children and adolescents.

Author

• Dayana Soto Y Caballero De Galicia, University of South Dakota