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The number of disappearance: trajectories in the tally of victims of forced disappearance in Latin America

open access: yesTapuya, 2022
The “metric turn” is shaping human rights knowledge, governance and politics globally. This article seeks to contribute to the emergent analysis of numbers in human rights matters from a Latin American perspective. We explore a phenomenon that is hard to
Oriana Bernasconi   +2 more
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Introduction. The forced disappearance of persons

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2019
The text introduces works presented at the workshop (with a similar title as the one of this article) held in July 2017 at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.
Gabriel Gatti   +2 more
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Absence and disappearance in law

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2018
Forced disappearance is the consequence of illegal and clandestine practices committed by out of control punitive powers, but social disappearance is also the effect of public policies where the law intervenes.
Ramón Sáez Valcárcel
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Forced disappearances and missing people in Colombia, South America

open access: yesForensic Science International: Reports, 2022
Carlos Martín Molina   +4 more
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Desapariciones de los cuerpos, borramientos de la imagen: archivo, violencia y memoria en la obra de Bruno Varela sobre el Caso Iguala (2015-2016)

open access: yesConfluenze, 2022
This article inquiries into the relationships between the archive, the state violence and the images as metaphors of the mutilated, murdered and disappeared body in the works of Bruno Varela, Volatilidad (2015), Fauna nociva (2015) y Materia oscura (2016)
Mariana Martínez Bonilla
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Y yo…, ¿a quién lloro? Manifestaciones de duelo en el Jardín Cementerio Universal de Medellín, Colombia

open access: yesAntípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2022
Cemeteries are propitious settings in which to mourn the death of a loved one. Such expressions of grief have particular social logics associated with there being a corpse buried in the grave.
Paola Stefanía Quintero Cardona   +2 more
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Enforced disappearance as a form of psychological torture: Evidence from the Ayotzinapa Case (México)

open access: yesTorture, 2021
Objective: To analyse the impacts of forced disappearance as a form of psychological torture in the forced disappearance of students known as the Ayotzinapa Case (Mexico). To make visible the effects of impunity.
Natalia Huerta Perez, Edith Esgareño
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From the narrative to the genes: When forensic technique meets social reparation

open access: yesForensic Science International: Reports, 2022
Every year thousands of people disappear in Brazil. However, it is still not clear how many of these are related to cases of forced disappearance resulting from institutional and state violence.
Aline Feitoza de Oliveira   +3 more
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How to Display Absence: Museographic Representations of the Disappeared in Peru

open access: yesÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2023
How to give presence to a body that has been exposed to violence until it disappears? How to exhibit its absence? This paper focuses on the representation and commemoration of victims of forced disappearance in the national memorial museum of Peru: the ...
Fabiola Arellano Cruz
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The "Non-favourite": Neo-tribal Sexualities on Celluloid [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Much academic ink has been spilt over the way in which female subjectivities and sexualities are constructed in the public domain. Issues of female sexuality form a huge part of queer studies and feminist accounts.
Chronopoulou, A., Chronopoulou, A.
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