Nelson Arteaga Botello is a professor of sociology at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences-Mexico. His fields of research are violence, surveillance, sociological theory, and cultural sociology. In 2005 he won the 5th Ibero-American Social Sciences Award granted by the Institute of Social Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2011. His publications include “Structural hermeneutics, dialectical hermeneutics: Is a synthesis possible?” Thesis Eleven 188(1) 2025: 87-100; “Attack on the US Capitol: A Translation from the Mexican Civil Sphere” Society 62(1) 2024: 18-33 (with Evelyn Mejia); “Cultural Sociology in Mexico: Meaning-Making as Hybridization, Power, and Cultural Structure” Cultural Sociology 19(1) 2024: 3-22; “ ‘Weaving the pandemic’ to make the virus less scary: a performative approach to the making of handicrafts” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 2024; Semantics of violence: Revolt and Political Assassination in Mexico (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2022), “Strong program cultural sociology and Latin America”, American Journal of Cultural Sociology 9(3) 2021: 419-29 (with Carlo Tognato), “The Populist Transition and the Civil Sphere in Mexico”, in Populism in the Civil Sphere, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Giuseppe Sciortino, and Peter Kivisto (Cambridge: Polity, 2021), “Solidary Cuisine: Las Patronas Facing the Central American Migratory Flow, in The Courage for Civil Repair edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky and Carlo Tognato (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Sociología y ciencia ficción: imaginar el futuro: Philip K. Dick más allá de Orwell y Foucault (FLACSO, 2020),“ ‘It Was the State’: the Trauma of the Enforced Disappearance of Students in Mexico,” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (32) 2019: 337-355, “The Civil Sphere in Mexico: Between Democracy and Authoritarianism,” (with Javier Arzuaga) in The Civil Sphere in Latin America, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Carlo Tognato (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
