Les Disparus du Mexique
The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme is organising an evening presentation of the book Les disparus du Mexique (The Disappeared of Mexico).
This ‘Livres en dialogue’ session will welcome Sabrina Melenotte, in conversation with a journalist.
At the end of the event, you will have the opportunity to ask our guests any questions you may have.
Since the ‘war on drug trafficking’ launched in 2006, Mexico has become a land of missing persons.
By giving a voice and a face to the families of victims who are searching for their loved ones, the stories and photographs in this book provide insights into how a society lives in, with, against and after extreme and widespread violence.
Faced with a dysfunctional state and fragmented institutions, the search for the ‘living’ ‘in the wild’, in institutions, in remote towns and villages, as well as artistic and memorial expressions, are all cries for justice from a society that embraces the fate of tens of thousands of anonymous people, disappeared or found dead.
Sabrina Melenotte edited this book and wrote or co-wrote several of its articles. An anthropologist and research fellow at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), affiliated with the Migration and Societies Research Unit (URMIS), she is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Condition humaine / Conditions politiques and a member of the editorial board of the journal Violence: An international journal. After completing her doctoral research on the armed conflict in Chiapas (Mexico), she is now conducting political anthropology research on disappearances, focusing on the search for missing persons and the governance of the dead in Mexico.
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