Search Results for forced disappearance

... as a form of psychological torture. 55 The racism and classism that Indigenous people and people of color have historically suffered in Mexico partially explain the disavowal of the human rights of the forty-three students who were disappeared by the Guerrero police forces, acting in collusion...

... and forced disappearances of cis and trans women in Argentina, rightly calling femicide an epidemic. Beginning the book with the statement “Here, no one is dispensable,” made by activist Nora Cortinas to hundreds of thousands of women protesting in 2018, López offers us a portrait of what intersectional...

... passed since the forced disappearance of forty-three students from the Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos, better known as the Escuela Normal Rural Ayotzinapa. Andrea, a student who was taking the seminar on “Femicide and Feminicidal Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean” at the Museum...

...: “the majority of us in this region are Mapuche women who were uprooted from our communities to go serve the city, and there we were obligated to feel ashamed of what we are.” The forced disappearance of the militant Santiago Maldonado followed the state's repression of a highway blockade organized...

... in these movements from the start, she contends. Quite strategically, however, the NUM (Ni Una Menos) movement transforms the force of mourning into desire, that slippery impulse that manages to bring together a political sisterhood emerging out of loss. This fundamental attachment between mourning and desire—which...

... province in the far south. They were then escorted to a mosque for the noon prayer. That was the last time they were seen. The police claimed that they mysteriously disappeared on their way home. The most widely believed story is that they were tortured, forced to consume pork and alcohol, and killed...

... heart of capitalism are beginning to consider themselves to be residual. Taking stock of this reality means facing a wave of resentment that impels the dominant political forces of our time. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License 2018...

... of ultraconservative and fascist forces as well as the persistence of colonial and racist grammars, with an eye to the politics of bodies and reproduction, several features of these processes come to the fore. These include the intensification of hypermasculine logics of war and criminalization, religious...

....” 7 For Djebar, writing is “a path to open . . . writing to make present a life, the pain perhaps, but the life, the incurable melancholy.” 8 Writing here is not a vehicle for expression or communication; it is rather an act and a force, one that stems from the body. It thus becomes...

... on earth, one of the most ancient in this hemisphere, and it is going to disappear.” Not everyone thinks that Cree, an Algonquian language now spoken by just under half of the two hundred thousand Cree people across the Canadian North, is going to disappear, but Tomson Highway, playwright, novelist...

... that nonetheless persist. The current controversy over the use of razor wire and floating borders 2 by the state of Texas is only the outward manifestation of the border's spiritual and material reality-making force: it rends flesh and tears relations. European Americans’ attempts to disappear into whiteness...

..., Isael made the set of drawings that we present here. In these drawings, the yãmĩyxop appear as a driving force; their impulse animates Isael's work. Produced between October 2020 and March 2021, these images show some of the countless beings that are disappearing in their animal and plant forms...

... to disappear. The resulting contraction of domestic markets naturally forced global investments to dry up, in their search for greener pastures. All of this was inevitable, in as much as the model of globalization exported to the South was underwritten by the same pathology of desire that passed for primitive...

... . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2003 . Benjamin Walter . “ The Right to Use Force .” In Selected Writings: 1913–1926 , vol. 1 , edited by Bullock Marcus and Jennings Michael W. , 231 – 34 . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press...

... distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). consent rape contract patriarchal symbolic economy disappearance detention The title “You Can't Rape Such a Depraved Woman” has the economy of a saying: it takes two to . . . , though the authors of the article...

... with Harvard historian of science, astrophysicist, and filmmaker Peter Galison. In an essay that predates the 2012 installation, also titled The Refusal of Time , Kentridge and Galison speculate on the black hole as a metaphoric time-map in which both disappearance and persistence are in play. “According...

... backdrop for the use of force nor as a territorial demarcation that states may justifiably defend, but as the very instantiation of legal violence (in its originary form). He contends, further, that establishing borders is a technic of ambiguity, designed to represent inequality as a single line that may...

... ideology and cornerstone of the Chilean neoliberal project. After this, the essay proposes an argument to explain the historical forces behind the uprising and the different forms of resistance expressed since. It concludes with an invitation to rethink work as such and its role in a future postneoliberal...

... of focusing attention on the experiences of survivors after catastrophic experiences of genocides. The survivor as described in this interview is neither a wretched of the earth, who is forced to live a tortured life, nor a subaltern whose voice cannot acquire speech. The survivor instead is an existence...

... answered: “If we still wish to maintain a separation between war and politics, perhaps we should postulate rather that this multiplicity of force relations can be coded in part but never totally—either in the form of ‘war,' or in the form of ‘politics,' this would imply two different strategies...