Ecologies of Disappearance Today. Introduction

Gatti, Gabriel; Neira, David Casado

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“…Life puts us in very difficult situations, but it somehow wove bonds so that together we can give truth about what happened in […] this extermination site. 13 (Araceli Salcedo, Roots of Pain, documentary 2019) 13 The original in Spanish reads: Es increíble cómo la tierra y los árboles nos están devolviendo a las familias de personas desaparecidas un poco de paz. La naturaleza es testiga del sufrimiento.…”

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Deep Forensics for a More-than-Human Justice

Torres

Smith

2023

Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol

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Buscadora collectives in Mexico have developed unique and transformative forensic practices to search for their disappeared loved ones. We examine the work of three collectives, each working in distinct political, ecological, and historical contexts to better understand emergent forms of local citizen-led forensic practice. Attending to spaces, that exist alongside but exceed contemporary forensic practice, we critically reexamine the practice of forensics in the context of the humanitarian and forensic 'crisis' in Mexico. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with forensic scientists and buscadora collectives between 2015-2022, we develop three case studies that analyze the collectives' work in three registers: the (inter)relational, the geo-logic, and the more-than-human. We argue for the emergence of a deep forensics based on collective practices that privilege fragile, multi-valent forms of knowledge production, attend to slow violence, and move beyond an exclusively human-centered episteme. These alternative practices have the potential to displace the crisis time of contemporary state-led forensics and better document the entangled contexts of 'stratigraphic violence' in contemporary Mexico allowing for an emergent more-than-human justice.

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Deep Forensics for a More-than-Human Justice

Torres

Smith

2023

Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol

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“…[...] the concept of disappearance has broadened: the framework within which we conceived of the original type of disappearance -in which the agent of disappearances is always the state or its accomplices, the subject of disappearance, a citizen, and the context of the disappearance is that of the rule of law -now falls short and fails to encompass the new modalities of disappearance (Gatti and Casado-Neira, 2020).…”

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The Normative Emergence of Death in the Organization of American States’ Responses to COVID-19: towards a Regional Governance of Death

2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been (re)creating new global geographies of death, which specifically impact the Global South and expose its continuum of vulnerabilities – unequally distributed in terms of race, gender, class, and so on. In the Americas, we can identify the emergence of a new regional governance of death, associated with a set of practical recommendations by the Organization of American States (OAS) constraining states’ policy responses to COVID-19 and installing a new global governance lexicon. Recommendations concerning the disposal of dead bodies, full respect for both collective and family grief, and indications of alternative ways to conduct funerals and memorial services, for instance, seem to evoke new multilateral responses, paving the way for a new governance model: one that centres death within regional policymaking. This points to a change in the treatment of death from a purely private to a politically infused issue. Theoretically, this article aims to bridge the gap between Death Studies and Global Governance literatures. Supported by Michel Foucault’s genealogical method, the goal is to critically reconceptualise the meanings and framings of death landscapes in the Americas, pointing us to the correlation of forces that enabled the normative emergence of death in the OAS in this particular historical moment.

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Ecologies of Disappearance Today. Introduction

Cited by 2 publications

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Deep Forensics for a More-than-Human Justice

Deep Forensics for a More-than-Human Justice

The Normative Emergence of Death in the Organization of American States’ Responses to COVID-19: towards a Regional Governance of Death

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