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Contents

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

Index

An Anthropology of Disappearance

Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing

Edited by Laura Huttunen and Gerhild Perl

Afterword by Antonius C. G. M. Robben

298 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-072-5 Hb Published (September 2023)

eISBN 978-1-80539-364-1 eBook