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oapen-20.500.12657-532332023-07-04T12:33:41Z Disappearances in Mexico Mandolessi, Silvana Olalde Rico, Katia Human rights, civil rights Politics and government Encyclopaedias and reference works bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPV Political control & freedoms::JPVH Human rights bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GB Encyclopaedias & reference works This volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the practice of disappearances in Mexico, from the period of the so-called ‘dirty war’ to the current crisis of disappearances associated with the country’s ‘war on drugs’, during which more than 80,000 people have disappeared. The volume brings together contributions by distinguished scholars from Mexico, Argentina and Europe, who focus their chapters on four broad axes of enquiry. In Part I, chapters examine the phenomenon of disappearances in its historical and present-day forms, and the struggles for memory around the disappeared in Mexico with reference to Argentina. Part II addresses the political dimensions of disappearances, focusing on the specificities that this practice acquires in the context of the counterinsurgency struggle of the 1970s and the so-called ‘war on drugs’. The third section situates the issue within the framework of human rights law by examining the conceptual and legal aspects of disappearances. The final chapters explore the social movement of the relatives of the disappeared, showing how their search for disappeared loved ones involves bodily and affective experiences as well as knowledge production. The volume thus aims to further our understanding of the crisis of disappearances in Mexico without, however, losing sight of the historic origins of the phenomenon. 2022-03-03T11:39:19Z 2022-03-03T11:39:19Z 2022 book ONIX_20220303_9781000539400_26 9781000539400 9781003169611 9780367770556 9781032196619 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53233 eng Europa Country Perspectives application/pdf n/a 9781000539400.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003169611 10.4324/9781003169611 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb KU Leuven 9781000539400 9781003169611 9780367770556 9781032196619 Routledge 258 open access
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This volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the practice of disappearances in Mexico, from the period of the so-called ‘dirty war’ to the current crisis of disappearances associated with the country’s ‘war on drugs’, during which more than 80,000 people have disappeared. The volume brings together contributions by distinguished scholars from Mexico, Argentina and Europe, who focus their chapters on four broad axes of enquiry. In Part I, chapters examine the phenomenon of disappearances in its historical and present-day forms, and the struggles for memory around the disappeared in Mexico with reference to Argentina. Part II addresses the political dimensions of disappearances, focusing on the specificities that this practice acquires in the context of the counterinsurgency struggle of the 1970s and the so-called ‘war on drugs’. The third section situates the issue within the framework of human rights law by examining the conceptual and legal aspects of disappearances. The final chapters explore the social movement of the relatives of the disappeared, showing how their search for disappeared loved ones involves bodily and affective experiences as well as knowledge production. The volume thus aims to further our understanding of the crisis of disappearances in Mexico without, however, losing sight of the historic origins of the phenomenon.
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