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Los textos que este libro presenta son fruto de varios años de reflexiones e intercambios interdisciplinarios. El Seminario Permanente de Violencia(s) y DD. HH., del Departamento de Historia de la Universidad Iberoamericana, desarrollado desde hace más de cinco años, ha servido de nicho para este intercambio y ha facilitado la incorporación de otras iniciativas e investigaciones independientes de miembros del grupo. Con el fin de comprender qué se entiende por violencia y cuáles son sus manifestaciones más severas en nuestros contextos latinoamericanos, en esta ocasión nos aproximamos a casos de estudio que nos han ayudado a comprender la dimensión y diversidad de los fenómenos asociados. Esto supuso también abordar las implicaciones que tiene la investigación sobre y en contextos de violencia, a lo que nos referimos, específicamente, en el primer capítulo. Partimos de reconocer la necesidad de discutir enfoques que nos ofrecieran un mapa amplio de interpretación de fenómenos asociados a las violencias, para superar ese lugar común, según el cual todos los fenómenos son el resultado del conflicto armado interno -en el caso de Colombia- y de la guerra contra el narcotráfico -en el caso de México-. La identificación de las particularidades de los fenómenos, el examen exhaustivo de los casos, el contexto situado en coordenadas de tiempo y lugar, el reconocimiento de actores y acciones, entre otros factores, han estado presentes en esta construcción.

Disappeared persons.

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The life and legacy of a young Argentinian woman whose disappearance in 1976 haunts those she left behindMarc Raboy always felt a "subliminal interest" in Argentina. His grandfather had left his village in the Ukraine in 1908 as a young man and spent a year in Buenos Aires, before returning home, marrying, and then emigrating to Canada, where Raboy was raised. While planning a trip of his own to Argentina, Raboy did an Internet search of his surname there, on the off-chance that he might discover some tie to his grandfather.In the process he found Alicia Raboy. Her story immediately seized him and wouldn't let him go. In June 1976, Alicia, a journalist and member of a militant underground leftwing group, the Montoneros, was ambushed by a security death squad while driving with her family in the city of Mendoza. Alicia's partner, the celebrated poet and fellow Montonero Francisco "Paco" Urondo, was killed on the spot. Their 11-month-old daughter, Ángela, was taken and placed in an orphanage. Her daughter ultimately was rescued; Alicia was never heard from again.In Looking for Alicia, Raboy pursues her story not simply to learn what happened when the post-Perón government in Argentina turned to state terror, but to understand what drove Alicia and others to risk their lives to oppose it. Whatever their distant ancestral kinship, author and subject were born a month apart, sharing not only a surname but youthful rebellion, journalistic ambition, and the radical politics that were a hallmark of the 1960s everywhere. Their destinies diverged through a combination of choice and circumstance.Using family archives, interviews with those who knew Alicia, and transcripts from the 2011 trial of former Argentine security forces personnel involved in her disappearance, Raboy reassembles Alicia's story. He supplements his narrative with documents from Argentina's attempts to deal with the legacy of the military dictatorship, such as the 1984 report of the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons, Nunca Más ("Never Again"), as well as secret diplomatic correspondence recently made public through the U.S. State Department's Argentina Declassification Project. Looking for Alicia immerses readers in these dark years, which, decades later, cast their shadow still. It puts an unforgettably human face to the many thousands who disappeared, those they left behind, and the haunting power of the memories that bind us all to them. (Provided by publisher) "A chill overtook me as I absorbed the details of Alicia's story. Alicia and Paco were members of a revolutionary organization, the Montoneros, Argentina's most consequential urban guerrilla group of the 1970s. I remembered that when news of Argentina's desaparecidos -- the disappeared -- began to be reported, I occasionally wondered what my fate might have been had my grandfather remained in Argentina. Here, on the screen before me, was one possible answer to that question. Like so many of my generation, I had been involved in political activism, to a degree. I was never a member of any revolutionary organization but I knew people who were, and in Argentina that would have been enough. Argentina in the 1970s turned out to be a deadly place for youthful idealism. As many as 30,000 people, mostly in their 20s, were killed or "disappeared" (which became a verb during this era) between 1975 and 1983 in what Argentinians commonly refer to today as the period of terrorismo de Estado -- State Terrorism"--

Disappeared persons --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism

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This volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the practice of disappearances in Mexico, from the period of the so-called 'dirty war' to the current crisis of disappearances associated with the country's 'war on drugs', during which more than 80,000 people have disappeared. The volume brings together contributions by distinguished scholars from Mexico, Argentina and Europe, who focus their chapters on four broad axes of enquiry. In Part I, chapters examine the phenomenon of disappearances in its historical and present-day forms, and the struggles for memory around the disappeared in Mexico with reference to Argentina. Part II addresses the political dimensions of disappearances, focusing on the specificities that this practice acquires in the context of the counterinsurgency struggle of the 1970s and the so-called 'war on drugs'. The third section situates the issue within the framework of human rights law, by examining the conceptual and legal aspects of disappearances. The final chapters explore the social movement of the relatives of the disappeared, showing how their search for disappeared loved ones involves bodily and affective experiences as well as knowledge production. The volume thus aims to further our understanding of the crisis of disappearances in Mexico without, however, losing sight of the historic origins of the phenomenon.

Disappeared persons. --- Civil rights. --- Drug control --- Political aspects. --- Mexico.

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This volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the practice of disappearances in Mexico, from the period of the so-called 'dirty war' to the current crisis of disappearances associated with the country's 'war on drugs', during which more than 80,000 people have disappeared. The volume brings together contributions by distinguished scholars from Mexico, Argentina and Europe, who focus their chapters on four broad axes of enquiry. In Part I, chapters examine the phenomenon of disappearances in its historical and present-day forms, and the struggles for memory around the disappeared in Mexico with reference to Argentina. Part II addresses the political dimensions of disappearances, focusing on the specificities that this practice acquires in the context of the counterinsurgency struggle of the 1970s and the so-called 'war on drugs'. The third section situates the issue within the framework of human rights law, by examining the conceptual and legal aspects of disappearances. The final chapters explore the social movement of the relatives of the disappeared, showing how their search for disappeared loved ones involves bodily and affective experiences as well as knowledge production. The volume thus aims to further our understanding of the crisis of disappearances in Mexico without, however, losing sight of the historic origins of the phenomenon.

Disappeared persons. --- Civil rights. --- Drug control --- Political aspects. --- Mexico.

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"Depuis les années 1960, des défunts palestiniens disparaissent, sont sommairement enterrés dans les "cimetières des nombres" ou gardés à la morgue. Ces morts sont des fedayin, des martyrs - hommes ou, plus rarement, femmes - ayant conduit des attentats, ou des personnes tuées par erreur. Leur détention post-mortem et leur retour en terre relèvent d'une économie de l'inimitié, guerrière, et d'une extension sans fin d'une toile carcérale sur les Territoires palestiniens. Leur mobilité, les lieux d'ensevelissement, les traces qu'ils laissent dans l'espace public sont autant de marqueurs frontaliers. Cet ouvrage aborde les mobilisations politiques, celles de la société civile et des familles, pour retrouver ces dépouilles, à partir d'une enquête ethnographique, de documents d'archives et d'écrits de proches de ces défunts. Il analyse les transformations de la figure sociale et politique du martyr, mais aussi les relations personnelles, genrées et émotionnelles entretenues avec les morts. Il interroge la nécro-violence, la catégorie de la victime et la légitimité des affects dans une histoire conflictuelle inachevée."--Page 4 of cover.

Civilian war casualties --- War victims --- Disappeared persons --- Heroes --- Political violence --- Arab-Israeli conflict. --- History. --- History. --- History. --- History. --- History.