An Anthropology of Disappearance

Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing

Laura Huttunen, Gerhild Perl (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

298 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-072-5 (ISBN)

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All over the world, people disappear from their families, communities and the state’s bureaucratic gaze, as victims of oppressive regimes or while migrating along clandestine routes. This volume brings together scholars who engage ethnographically with such disappearances in various cultural, social and political contexts. It takes an anthropological perspective on questions about human life and death, absence and presence, rituals and mourning, liminality and structures, citizenship and personhood as well as agency and power. The chapters explore the political dimension of disappearances and address methodological, epistemological and ethical challenges of researching disappearances and the disappeared. The combination of disappearance through political violence, crime, voluntary disappearance and migration make this book a unique combination.

Laura Huttunen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Tampere University, Finland. In 2013-14 she ran a project that focused on the question of missing and disappeared persons in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 2018-2022 she led a research project with a focus on disappearances in migratory contexts.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why an Anthropology of Disappearance? A Tentative Introduction

Laura Huttunen and Gerhild Perl

This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of Tampere University.

Part I: Voicing Disappearances: Violence, Intimacies and Afterlives

Chapter 1. ‘Who has taken my son (Amar Cheleke Ke Nilo)?’ Pervasive Missingness, Custodial Disappearances and Revolutionary Violence in Urban India

Atreyee Sen

Chapter 2. On the Slow Silencing of Absences: Sensing Social Disappearances in Cape Verde

Heike Drotbohm

This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Chapter 3. ‘What to do?’: Searching for Missing Persons in Israel

Ori Katz

Chapter 4. A Right to Disappear? State, Regulatory Politics and the Entitlements of Kinship

Anna Matyska

Part II: Politics of Disappearances: (State) Violence and Its Aftermath

Chapter 5. Disappearance via Adoption: On Missing Children in Spain (1936–96)

Diana Marre and Jessaca Leinaweaver

Chapter 6. Enforced Disappearances, Colonial Legacies and Political Affect in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya

Stefan Millar

This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki

Chapter 7. Chroniclers of Violence in Contemporary Mexico: Feminist Reflections on Memory and Disappearance

Rosalva Aida Hernández Castillo

Part III: Alternative Ways of Knowing: Mediating Absences, Negotiating Disappearances

Chapter 8. Murky Disappearances: How Competing Narratives Obscure Structures of Power along the France-UK Border

Victoria Tecca

Chapter 9. Being There in the Presence of Absence: Researching the Remains of Migrant Disappearances

Ville Laakkonen

This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of Tampere University.

Chapter 10. Negotiating Epistemic Uncertainties: Coming to Terms with Migrant Disappearances at the Western Mediterranean

Saila Kivilahti and Laura Huttunen

This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of Tampere University.

Chapter 11. The Mediterranean as a Forensic Archive

Zuzanna Dziuban

Afterword: Imaginations and Traces of the Disappeared

Antonius C.G.M. Robben

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Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	EASA Series
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-072-4 / 1805390724
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-072-5 / 9781805390725
Zustand	Neuware