Diplomacy and extraterritorial repression: the involvement of the Argentine Foreign Service in the ‘Molfino case’ by Facundo Fernández Barrio

“…This article analyses the involvement of the Argentine Foreign Service in the kidnapping and forced disappearance operation of four Argentine activists in Peru, in June of 1980. …”
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From the narrative to the genes: When forensic technique meets social reparation by Aline Feitoza de Oliveira, Magnus Régios Dias da Silva, Edson Luis de Almeida Teles, Raiane Patrícia Severino Assumpção

“…However, it is still not clear how many of these are related to cases of forced disappearance resulting from institutional and state violence. …”
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Construcción de sentido de la desaparición forzada en la memoria de hijos e hijas de personas desaparecidas en Colombia.Propuesta metodológica con enfoque psicosocial para un estud... by Andrea Guatavita Garzón

“…This article is an introduction and methodological presentation of the thesis "Construction of a sense of forced disappearance in the memory of sons and daughters of disappeared persons in Colombia",directed by Daniel Kersner and co -directed by Sandra Raggio. …”
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Miguel Nazar Haro y la guerra sucia en México by Carlos Fernando López de la Torre

“…He participated, directly, on the torture and forced disappearance of the regime’s political opposition; he was, also, the founder of the White Squad: a paramilitary organization which was in charge of finishing the urban guerrilla. …”
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Transmission questioned. Youth, awareness, and memory of repression at Posadas Hospital, in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Emilio Crenzel

“…This paper analyses popular wisdom and memory transmission regarding State terrorism and forced disappearance, which are circulating among youth living around Hospital Posadas, located in Haedo, a province to Buenos Aires, Argentina. …”
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State violence in Mexico during the «dirty war». Continuous injustices and memories resisted by Andrés Marcelo Díaz Fernández

“…Demarcations of the elements of this context are made, because although the effects of a war are suffered and crimes against humanity are generated, such as forced disappearance and torture, this is not public and evident, retracting any possibility of frontal combat. …”
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A convenção internacional para a proteção de todas as pessoas contra o desaparecimento forçado e seus impactos no Brasil by Luciano Meneguetti Pereira

“…Abstract: The present text aimed to analyze the main impacts that the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Forced Disappearance (2006), ratified and recently internalized by Brazil in 2016, can produce in the country. …”
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EL LUGAR DE LOS SENTIMIENTOS, EL LUGAR DE LOS VÍNCULOS. RECONFIGURACIÓN DE IDENTIDADES EN EL MARCO DEL CONFLICTO ARMADO COLOMBIANO by Gloria María López Arboleda

“…This article is a summary of the results of two realized researches: identity Setting in young persons who lived when they were children had an experience of forced disappearance of a family member, under the Colombian armed conflict (Alvis, Duke & Rodriguez, 2012) and The role of feelings in the construction of social identity of demobilized combatants of Colombian armed conflict(Lopez & Patiño, 2010). …”
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The disappearance of 43 teacher-trainees in Mexico: An approach to critical discourse analysis in the press by Carolina Robledo-Silvestre, Eva Patricia Velásquez-Upegui

“…All of the strategies are oriented to the dispute of the lexical fields that give sense to the forced disappearance and the violation of human rights. © Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales.…”
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Doctoral theses in Arts. Material devices exposed to the dangers of the sensitive by Viviana Silva Flores

“…A thesis focussing on images of forced disappearance and their possibilities for enunciation, where the scientific distance that comes from observation without an observer becomes impossible.…”
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Poetry and Human Rights in the Argentina of the Nineties: the anthology El lenguaje de un gesto (1993) by Emiliano Tavernini

“…This article proposes to analyze poetic texts of the sons and daughters of political activists who disappeared due to State terrorism that were written and published within the framework of the Talleres Creativos del Movimiento Solidario de Salud Mental (1982-1994), which were thought as a means of therapeutic elaboration of that postponed mourning that involves forced disappearance. These collective writing devices were intended to break with the social induction, promoted by the State, that genocide was an intimate and private problem that the victims had to process on their own; In response to this, the objective of the team of psychologists was to promote an open context so that, through artistic expression, family memories could be shared with a small community that had undergone similar experiences.…”
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« Corps-prendre » l’Amérique latine : les performances de Karen Veloso et de Scheherazade Zambrano Orozco by Cécile Chantraine-Braillon

“…The four performances analyzed in this article - Ramona au grill, Superposition (Karen Veloso, 2011 and 2019) as well as Plis et Vertiges and Chutes (Scheherazade Zambrano Orozco, 2013 and 2014) - first seek to confuse the viewer's usual gaze on their own reality (their relationship to the University), their daily practices (their relationship to the screens) as well as their vision of Latin America regarding, among other things, forced disappearance, narcotrafficking crimes and the relationship to the land. …”
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Freedom from Fear by Reza Eslami, fatemeh Mortazavi fard

“…The article then studies the threats to freedom of fear including classical threats such as arbitrary detention, torture, and forced disappearance as well as the new ones like terrorism, organized crimes, and domestic violence, and then examines the impact of these threats on freedom from fear. …”
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Gestionar la frustración: experiencias relacionales de antropólogas forenses en el contexto del conflicto armado colombiano by Juan Pablo Aranguren Romero, Gabriela Fernández Miranda

“…This analysis inquiries about the role of the commitment with the victim’s families in relation to the motivation needed to maintain the efforts in searching, exhuming, identifying and returning the body remains of forced disappearance victims in the context of politic violence and war in Colombia. …”
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Memorias de las desapariciones. Los vecinos del Centro Clandestino de Detención del Hospital Posadas, Buenos Aires, Argentina by Emilio Crenzel

“…Specifically, it investigates their experiences of state violence, in particular the system for the forced disappearance of individuals, and how they have remained inscribed in personal memories. …”
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Uruguayan mortuaries and the No Names: the long story of the unidentified bodies found on the coastline of Uruguay during the Condor Plan by Magdalena Figueredo, Fabiana Larrobla

“…The repressive strategy implemented in Argentina through torture and forced disappearance was indeed echoed by the bureaucratic repressive strategy implemented in Uruguay through incomplete and false reports, aiming to make the NN disappear once again.…”

Cortázar-Heker (1978-1981). Controversy Elided/Genocide Denied by Inés Vázquez

“…I discuss in this text the well-known “controversy” between Liliana Heker and Julio Cortázar from a little traveled perspective, linked to the analysis of social discourses, with attention to the traces left in them by the genocide of the forced disappearance of people carried out by the civic dictatorship -Army military (1976-1983). …”
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El movimiento de derechos humanos y la construcción de las memorias de la represión en clave local. La resistencia “jipuche” en El Bolsón de la posdictadura argentina by Ayelén Mereb

“…While, on the one hand, the exercise seeks to illuminate little-addressed or unknown aspects of the memorial processes about past traumas; on the other hand, it helps to reconstruct the origins of a local sociopolitical identity that recognizes and revindicates the struggle against the forced disappearance of Santiago Maldonado during the repression of a Mapuche community in August 2017.…”
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“Ni vivo, ni muerto” by Julie Marchio

“…Indeed, the number of victims can only be established based on estimates and projections due to the implementation of forced disappearance of people and collective massacres which were strategies of the State terrorism practiced in the region.Unlike Argentina and Chile who, at different times during their transition, promoted state-funded memory policies aimed at searching for and identifying the disappeared, the exhumation process in Central American countries directly affected by armed conflicts is in charge of family members, associations of victims and NGOs. …”
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It’s difficult to be a man, but it’s even more difficult to be an indigenous man: in/EXISTING masculine identities by María Alejandra Salguero-Velázquez, Dania Isabella Tabares Castañeda

“…The prefix “in” intends to indicate both the existence and nonexistence of indigenous mas-culine identities that often “disappear” as in the case of the forced disappearance of the Azyotzinapa students in 2014. …”
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