Missing Persons, Political Landscapes and Cultural Practices
Violent Absences, Haunting Presences
Seiten
2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7703-2 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7703-2 (ISBN)
The book explores missing person issues and human disappearances from an anthropological perspective. It analyses reasons behind disappearances and the political and practical ways of dealing with them, suggesting a conceptual framework for understanding disappearances across varying political and cultural contexts. -- .
This book examines human disappearances anthropologically in various contexts, ranging from enforced disappearances under oppressive governments and during armed conflicts to disappearing undocumented migrants and, finally, to people who go missing under more everyday circumstances. Two focuses run through the book: the relationship between the state and disappearances, and the consequences of disappearances for the families and communities of missing persons. The book analyses both the circumstances that make some people disappear and the variety of responses that disappearances give rise to; the latter include projects focused on searching for the missing and identifying human remains, as well as political projects that call for accountability for disappearances. While providing empirical examples from a variety of places, with Bosnia-Herzegovina as they key empirical site, the book develops an analytic grip on the slippery category of the ‘disappeared’. -- .
This book examines human disappearances anthropologically in various contexts, ranging from enforced disappearances under oppressive governments and during armed conflicts to disappearing undocumented migrants and, finally, to people who go missing under more everyday circumstances. Two focuses run through the book: the relationship between the state and disappearances, and the consequences of disappearances for the families and communities of missing persons. The book analyses both the circumstances that make some people disappear and the variety of responses that disappearances give rise to; the latter include projects focused on searching for the missing and identifying human remains, as well as political projects that call for accountability for disappearances. While providing empirical examples from a variety of places, with Bosnia-Herzegovina as they key empirical site, the book develops an analytic grip on the slippery category of the ‘disappeared’. -- .
Laura Huttunen is Professor of Social Anthropology at Tampere University, Finland. -- .
Introduction: towards the anthropology of disappearance
1 Enforced disappearance: politics of terror and paralysing uncertainties
2 Disappearing en route: missing migrants, ambiguous absences and exposure to death
3 ‘Individual’ missing persons: private agonies and ambiguities of citizenship
4 Material reappearances: dead bodies and mortal remains
5 Symbolic reappearances: photographs, memorials and ghosts
Conclusion: violent absences, haunting presences
References
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.01.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 9 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 460 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-7703-X / 152617703X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-7703-2 / 9781526177032 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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