Del 237 i serien Proceedings of the British Academy

Disappearances in the Post-Transition Era in Latin America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvKarina, Ansolabehere,Karina Ansolabehere,Barbara A. Frey,Leigh A. Payne

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Latin America sits at the centre of the third wave of democratisation beginning in the early 1980s. It has advanced farther than any other region of the world in its accountability processes for past human rights violations perpetrated during authoritarian regimes and armed conflicts. Despite these human rights achievements, Latin America is known as the most violent global region. In the last two decades since the transitions, serious human rights violations, especially disappearances, have increased exponentially in several countries in the region. This volume seeks to understand these post-transition disappearances. It does so by examining four different countries and the dynamics that play out there. It considers a variety of voices and points of view: those expressing the experiences from the perspectives of victims and relatives; those of activists, advocates, and public officials seeking truth and justice; and those from scholars attempting to draw out the specificities in each case and the patterns across cases. The underlying objective behind the project to gain knowledge and to draw on deep commitment to change within the region is to overcome this tragedy. After reading this volume, readers will not only have an overview of the practice of disappearances in the region, but will also be able to gauge how, despite the differences, the social and political logics that make disappearances possible are similar. The disappearances of the past and those of present are not the same, and it would be a mistake to consider them that way, but the social practices that make them possible are similar. These practices are what we call the logics of disappearance.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-06-24
Mått163 x 240 x 23 mm
Vikt810 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieProceedings of the British Academy
Antal sidor308
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780197267226

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Karina Ansolabehere is a Researcher at the Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (IIJ-UNAM) and part time Research Professor at FLACSO-Mexico. She is the principal investigator of the Observatory of Disappearances and Impunity in Mexico.Barbara A. Frey is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Global Studies and Director of the Human Rights Program at the University of Minnesota.Leigh A. Payne is professor of Sociology and Latin America at the University of Oxford, St Antony's College.

List of IllustrationsList of FiguresList of TablesNote on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK1: LEIGH A. PAYNE AND KARINA ANSOLABEHERE: Conceptualising Post-Transition Disappearances2: BARBARA A. FREY: Conceptualising Disappearances in International LawPART II. COUNTRY CASE STUDIESMEXICO3: LULÚ HERRERA WITH PAULA CUELLAR CUELLAR: My Promise to Look for You4: KARINA ANSOLABEHERE AND ALVARO MARTOS: Disappearances in Mexico: An Analysis based on the Northeast Region5: SANDRA SERRANO AND VOLGA DE PINA RAVEST: The Legal Framework on Disappearances in Mexico: From Demands to the Law and Back to DemandsBRAZIL6: DE?BORA MARIA DA SILVA WITH RAIANE PATRICIA SEVERINO ASSUMPÇÃO: Woman, Mother, Human Rights Defender7: JAVIER AMADEO AND RAIANE PATRICIA SEVERINO ASSUMPÇÃO: State Violence in Brazil: Execution, Slaughter, and Disappearance in the Post-Authoritarian Era8: MARLON ALBERTO WEICHERT: Systematic Recurrence of Murders and Disappearances in Democratic BrazilARGENTINA9: SERGIO MALDONADO, GERMÁN MALDONADO, STELLA PELOSO AND ENRIQUE MALDONADO: Letters for Santiago10: NATALIA FEDERMAN, MARCELA PERELMAN, MICHELLE CAÑAS COMAS AND GASTÓN CHILLIER: Disappearances in Post Transitional Argentina: A Challenge For Human Rights InterventionEL SALVADOR11: 'WILSON': Wilson's Testimony: Abuse of Authority12: MARIA JOSÉ MÉNDEZ: New Generation of Disappearances: Gangs and the State in El SalvadorPART III. TOOLS FOR ADVOCACY AND MOBILIZATION13: LEIGH A. PAYNE AND HUNTER JOHNSON: The Visual Image as a Tool of Power14: BARBARA A. FREY: Using the Minnesota Protocol to Investigate in Disappearance Cases15: RAINER HUHLE: 'Urgent Actions' for the Search of Disappeared Persons in the specialised Bodies of the United Nations16: MICHAEL W. CHAMBERLIN: Using the International Criminal Court to Denounce Disappearances: Crimes against Humanity in Coahuila, Mexico17: SANDRA SERRANO: Forced disappearances in the Inter-American Human Rights System18: VOLGA DE PINA RAVEST: How to Create a Search Mechanism for Disappeared Persons: Lessons from MexicoConclusionsIndex