Abstract
Mexico’s contemporary social life is marked by extended, intensifying violence. The state of Colima in particular offers one of the most acute examples of such escalation. This paper examines violence from the perspective of a violence continuum, set within in a necropolitical social order. It seeks to explore the continuities of gender in this context of violence and, particularly, the emergence of hyper-violent masculine subjectivities and their link to a neoliberal rationality marked by social precarity. To guide this reflection, we discuss discursive elaborations on gender-based violence deriving from two ambits: men convicted for violence towards women, and media discourses on feminicide and hate crimes against LGBT people, both in the context of Colima. The conclusions identify some features of hyper-violent masculinities related to the obedience of gender mandates and the enhancement of masculine capital inherent to neoliberal rationality in the context of social precarity.
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