Antígone’s tragedy and the search for the disappeared has been aesthetically and politically appropriated by artists and activists in Mexico. Reflecting about the relationship between futility, forensic technologies and the notion of a victim-political subject, this paper engages with the narratives of the families that constituted the governance body of a project known as ‘Citizen-Led Forensics’ which brought to the world the first forensic DNA database created, managed and designed by relatives of the disappeared in Mexico. Our findings are the product of years of ethnography and one year of intense participatory research. We argue that it is only once technologies are not bound by principles of efficiency, market logics, or exclusive exp...
In 2014 the disappearance of 43 students from a rural school in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, showed evidenc...
In Mexico, memory has become a battlefield nowadays. The Ayotzinapa case (2014) –a still unresolved ...
This research establishes the causes of the crime of forced disappearance and analyzes the violation...
La tragedia de Antígona ha sido apropiada estética y políticamente por artistas y activistas en Méxi...
La tragedia de Antígona ha sido apropiada estética y políticamente por artistas y activistas en Méxi...
La tragedia de Antígona ha sido apropiada estética y políticamente por artistas y activistas en Méxi...
ResumoNo México contemporâneo, a memória virou um campo de batalha. O caso Ayotzinapa (2014) – uma c...
En los casos de desapariciones humanas se abre un amplio campo de actuación de prácticas articuladas...
In human disappearance cases a wide range of practices are implemented, they build a sequence of "tr...
Currently, Mexico experiences a generalized problem of the disappearance of people in the context of...
Los antropólogos forenses buscan descifrar las huellas de la muerte anónima, devolverles a los resto...
Los antropólogos forenses buscan descifrar las huellas de la muerte anónima, devolverles a los rest...
La desaparición como violación grave a los derechos humanos ha sido una práctica constante en México...
Forced disappearance produces radical uncertainty. The mothers and relatives of disappeared persons ...
Forensic anthropologists seek to decipher traces of anonymous dead, to restitute identities of human...
In 2014 the disappearance of 43 students from a rural school in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, showed evidenc...
In Mexico, memory has become a battlefield nowadays. The Ayotzinapa case (2014) –a still unresolved ...
This research establishes the causes of the crime of forced disappearance and analyzes the violation...
La tragedia de Antígona ha sido apropiada estética y políticamente por artistas y activistas en Méxi...
La tragedia de Antígona ha sido apropiada estética y políticamente por artistas y activistas en Méxi...
La tragedia de Antígona ha sido apropiada estética y políticamente por artistas y activistas en Méxi...
ResumoNo México contemporâneo, a memória virou um campo de batalha. O caso Ayotzinapa (2014) – uma c...
En los casos de desapariciones humanas se abre un amplio campo de actuación de prácticas articuladas...
In human disappearance cases a wide range of practices are implemented, they build a sequence of "tr...
Currently, Mexico experiences a generalized problem of the disappearance of people in the context of...
Los antropólogos forenses buscan descifrar las huellas de la muerte anónima, devolverles a los resto...
Los antropólogos forenses buscan descifrar las huellas de la muerte anónima, devolverles a los rest...
La desaparición como violación grave a los derechos humanos ha sido una práctica constante en México...
Forced disappearance produces radical uncertainty. The mothers and relatives of disappeared persons ...
Forensic anthropologists seek to decipher traces of anonymous dead, to restitute identities of human...
In 2014 the disappearance of 43 students from a rural school in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, showed evidenc...
In Mexico, memory has become a battlefield nowadays. The Ayotzinapa case (2014) –a still unresolved ...
This research establishes the causes of the crime of forced disappearance and analyzes the violation...