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Disappearances in Mexico: From the 'Dirty War' to the 'War on Drugs' book cover

1st Edition

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

Edited By Silvana Mandolessi, Katia Olalde Rico Copyright 2022
258 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Silvana Mandolessi is associate professor of Cultural Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium and Principal Investigator of the ERC project ‘Digital Memories’.

Katia Olalde is an associate professor at the Art History Department, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM-ENES Morelia).

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