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Forced Disappearance as a Collective Cultural Trauma in the Ayotzinapa Movement
Latin American Perspectives, 2020The disappearance of 43 students of the teachers’ training college at Ayotzinapa in 2014 has inspired a broad social movement. Ethnographic work and interviews conducted at several of the demonstrations to show solidarity with the parents of the students reveal that their forced disappearance has been framed by participants as a collective cultural ...
Tommaso Gravante
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Forced Disappearance in an Era of Globalization: Biopolitics, Shadow Networks, and Imagined Worlds
American Anthropologist, 2011ABSTRACT In this article, I argue that the practice of forced disappearance of persons on the part of paramilitary groups has become linked to specific processes of globalization. Global flows related to biopolitics, global crime networks, and dehumanizing imaginations reproduced by mass media together constitute a driving force behind forced ...
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Extrajudicial Executions and Forced Disappearances
2012According to the CEH’s analysis of the many testimonies collected through fieldwork, the right to life was among those most consistently violated … International human rights law, based on conventions as well as custom, international humanitarian law as well as all constitutions guarantee the right to life … Article 3 of the 1948 Universal Declaration ...
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2014
Every August since 2010, on occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared, Amnesty International shakes the media out of its lazy summer haze with a press statement that makes big headlines: 114 thousand families “are still looking for their loved ones who were disappeared during the Spanish Civil War.” Even well into the twenty-first century ...
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Every August since 2010, on occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared, Amnesty International shakes the media out of its lazy summer haze with a press statement that makes big headlines: 114 thousand families “are still looking for their loved ones who were disappeared during the Spanish Civil War.” Even well into the twenty-first century ...
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Religion in American Higher Education: A Disappearing Force
The Review of Higher Education, 1994The two books reviewed for this essay discuss the erosion of religion as a force in American higher education. Secularization approaches the issue from a historical, analytical perspective with a plea for the importance of religion’s cultural view on campus issues.
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Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay
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Forced Disappearances in the Inter-American Human Rights System
2021The chapter explains the approach taken toward disappearances by the mechanisms that comprise the Inter-American System of Human Rights. Inter-American jurisprudence is a tool that is not only useful in litigation within the regional system but also constitutes a fundamental tool which can be adapted for domestic litigation and the construction of ...
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Disappearances as Forced Abductions in Ciudad Juárez
2016It is argued in this chapter that the repetition over time of disappearance “hot spots” in Ciudad Juarez reflect continued “gaps” in the rule of law that discriminate against women. Organized human traffickers and unorganized sexual assassins take advantage of the impunity afforded by neighborhoods characterized by lack of social investment in public ...
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Forced Disappearance in the Borderland: Unveiling Victims' Invisibility in Norte de Santander
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020The 55 year-long armed conflict in Colombia left more than 80,000 individuals forcibly disappeared across the country, more than any other country in Latin America. Despite the peace agreement reached between the guerrilla FARC group and the Colombian government in 2016, features of the conflict continue, particularly in Norte de Santander, where the ...
Javier Ochoa, Jessica Spanswick
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Forced disappearance. Psychological impact and Traumatic grief
2022La « disparition forcée », expression apparue dans le droit international en 1978, est une arme de terreur qui se mondialise comme le révèlent les rapports alarmants d’Amnesty International. « Ni mort, ni vivant », le disparu dont les traces ont été effacées demeure omniprésent dans l’esprit de sa famille et de ses proches qui poursuivent d’incessantes
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