Home -> Title
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