PART 1: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK : Conceptualising Post-Transition Disappearances / LEIGH A. PAYNE AND KARINA ANSOLABEHERE -- Conceptualising Disappearances in International Law / BARBARA A. FREY -- PART2. COUNTRY CASE STUDIES : MEXICO: My Promise to Look for You / LULU HERRERA WITH PAULA CUELLAR CUELLAR -- Disappearances in Mexico: An Analysis based on the Northeast Region / KARINA ANSOLABEHERE AND ALVARO MARTOS -- The Legal Framework on Disappearances in Mexico: From Demands to the Law and Back to Demands / SANDRA SERRANO AND VOLGA DE PINA RAVEST -- BRAZIL: Woman, Mother, Human Rights Defender / DEBORA MARIA DA SILVA WITH RAIANE PATRICIA SEVERINO ASSUMPCʹAO -- State Violence in Brazil: Execution, Slaughter, and Disappearance in the Post-Authoritarian Era / JAVIER AMADEO AND RAIANE PATRICIA SEVERINO ASSUMPCʹAO -- Systematic Recurrence of Murders and Disappearances in Democratic Brazil / MARLON ALBERTO WEICHERT -- ARGENTINA: Letters for Santiago / SERGIO MALDONADO, GERMAN MALDONADO, STELLA PELOSO AND ENRIQUE MALDONADO -- Disappearances in Post Transitional Argentina: A Challenge For Human Rights Intervention / NATALIA FEDERMAN, MARCELA PERELMAN, MICHELLE CANAS COMAS AND GASTON CHILLIER -- EL SALVADOR: Wilson's Testimony: Abuse of Authority / 'WILSON' -- New Generation of Disappearances: Gangs and the State in El Salvador / MARIA JOSE MENDEZ -- PART 3. TOOLS FOR ADVOCACY AND MOBILIZATION : The Visual Image as a Tool of Power / LEIGH A. PAYNE AND HUNTER JOHNSON -- Using the Minnesota Protocol to Investigate in Disappearance Cases / BARBARA A. FREY -- 'Urgent Actions' for the Search of Disappeared Persons in the specialised Bodies of the United Nations / RAINER HUHLE -- Using the International Criminal Court to Denounce Disappearances: Crimes against Humanity in Coahuila, Mexico / MICHAEL W. CHAMBERLIN -- Forced disappearances in the Inter-American Human Rights System / SANDRA SERRANO -- How to Create a Search Mechanism for Disappeared Persons: Lessons from Mexico / VOLGA DE PINA RAVEST.
Summary:
"Latin America sits at the centre of the third wave of democratisation beginning in the early 1980s. It has advanced farther than any other region of the world in its accountability processes for past human rights violations perpetrated during authoritarian regimes and armed conflicts. Despite these human rights achievements, Latin America is known as the most violent global region. In the last two decades since the transitions, serious human rights violations, especially disappearances, have increased exponentially in several countries in the region. This volume seeks to understand these post-transition disappearances. It does so by examining four different countries and the dynamics that play out there. It considers a variety of voices and points of view: those expressing the experiences from the perspectives of victims and relatives; those of activists, advocates, and public officials seeking truth and justice; and those from scholars attempting to draw out the specificities in each case and the patterns across cases. The underlying objective behind the project to gain knowledge and to draw on deep commitment to change within the region is to overcome this tragedy. After reading this volume, readers will not only have an overview of the practice of disappearances in the region, but will also be able to gauge how, despite the differences, the social and political logics that make disappearances possible are similar. The disappearances of the past and those of present are not the same, and it would be a mistake to consider them that way, but the social practices that make them possible are similar. These practices are what we call the logics of disappearance."-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; volume 237
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