Disappearances in Mexico - From the ''Dirty War'' to the ''War on Drugs''

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.

List of contents

The Editors and Contributors
Acknowledgements
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
Disappearances in Mexico: From the 'dirty war' to the 'war on drugs'
Silvana Mandolessi
PART I Historical Dimensions of Disappearances
1 Responsibilities in the system of enforced disappearance of people in Argentina: A historical perspective
Emilio Crenzel
2 Recasting history to cast off shadows: State violence in Mexico, 1958-2018
Eugenia Allier Montaño, Camilo Vicente Ovalle and Juan Sebastián Granada-Cardona
PART II Political Dimensions of Disappearances
3 Disappearance and governmentality in Mexico
Pilar Calveiro
4 Violence regimes and disappearances: Some reflections from the northeast region of Mexico
Karina Ansolabehere and Álvaro Martos
PART III Legal Dimensions of Disappearances
5 State acquiescence to disappearances in the context of Mexico's 'war on drugs'
Lene Guercke
6 Fate and whereabouts: the two elements that make up the right to know about the victims of enforced disappearance
Rainer Huhle
PART IV Affective and Experienced Dimensions of the Search and the Social Mobilization for the Disappeared
7 Pedagogies of searching in contexts of dispossession
Carolina Robledo Silvestre
8 The right to search in the case of disappeared persons: A right constructed from below
Jorge Verástegui González
9 Memorialising absence: Memorials to the disappeared in Mexico
María de Vecchi Gerli
Index

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Silvana Olalde Rico Mandolessi
• Assisted by: Silvana Mandolessi (Editor), Mandolessi Silvana (Editor), Katia Olalde Rico (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032196619
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3219661-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Europa Country Perspectives
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Reference works, Politics and government, Political science and theory, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights