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X-WR-CALNAME:Angela Garcia\, “The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life\, D
 eath\, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos\,” in conversation with Paula Mo
 ya
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DESCRIPTION:Explore Professor Garcia’s work in this interview with KQED p
 odcasts\, “Inside Mexico’s Clandestine Drug Treatment Centers.”\n\nB
 ased on over a decade of research\, a powerful\, moving work of narrative 
 nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico
  City\, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their 
 children to escape the violence of the drug war.\n\nThe Way That Leads Amo
 ng the Lost reveals a hidden place where care and violence are impossible 
 to separate: the anexos of Mexico City. The prizewinning anthropologist An
 gela Garcia takes us deep into the world of these small rooms\, informal t
 reatment centers for alcoholism\, addiction\, and mental illness\, spread 
 across Mexico City’s tenements and reaching into the United States. Run 
 and inhabited by Mexico’s most marginalized populations\, they are contr
 oversial for their illegality and their use of coercion. Yet for many Mexi
 can families desperate to keep their loved ones safe\, these rooms offer s
 omething of a refuge from what lies beyond them—the intensifying violenc
 e surrounding the drug war.\n\nThis is the first book ever written on the 
 anexos. Garcia\, who spent a decade conducting anthropological fieldwork i
 n Mexico City\, draws readers into their many dimensions\, casting light o
 n the mothers and their children who are entangled in this hidden world. F
 ollowing the stories of its denizens\, she asks what these places are\, wh
 y they exist\, and what they reflect about Mexico and the wider world. Wit
 h extraordinary empathy and a sharp eye for detail\, Garcia attends to the
  lives that the anexos both sustain and erode\, wrestling with the questio
 n of why mothers turn to them as a site of refuge even as they reproduce v
 iolence. Woven into these portraits is Garcia’s own powerful story of fa
 mily\, childhood\, homelessness\, and drugs—a blend of ethnography and m
 emoir converging on a set of fundamental questions about the many forms an
 d meanings that violence\, love\, care\, family\, and hope may take.\n\nIn
 fused with profound ethnographic richness and moral urgency\, The Way That
  Leads Among the Lost is a stunning work of narrative nonfiction\, a book 
 that will leave a deep mark on readers.\n\n \n\nSponsored by the Research 
 Institute of CCSRE.
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LOCATION:Building 360\, CCSRE Conference Room
SUMMARY:Angela Garcia\, “The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life\, Death\
 , and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos\,” in conversation with Paula Moya
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 leads-among-the-lost-life-death-and-hope-in-mexico-citys-anexos-in-convers
 ation-with-paula-moya
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