Mexique : une terre de disparu.e.s
The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme is organising an evening presentation of the book Mexique : une terre de disparu.e.s (Mexico: land of the vanished).
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 been marked by the massive and ongoing disappearance of people. By giving a voice and a face to the families who tirelessly search for their loved ones, Mexique : une terre de disparu.e.s sheds light on how a society learns to live in, with, against and after extreme violence. Faced with fragmented institutions, searches in the countryside, in cities or in the most remote villages have become new civil rituals, and artistic and memorial practices have become new cries for justice. The ethnographic accounts here tell the story of a society that is collectively confronting the fate of tens of thousands of anonymous people who have disappeared or been 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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