An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing

Contents\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction. Why an Anthropology of Disappearance? A Tentative Introduction\nPART I. Voicing Disappearances: Violence, Intimacies and Afterlives\nChapter 1. ‘Who Has Taken My Son (Amar Cheleke Ke Nilo)?’ Pervasive Missingness, Custodial Disappearances and Revolutionary Violence in Urban India\nChapter 2. On the Slow Silencing of Absences: Sensing Social Disappearances in Cape Verde\nChapter 3. ‘What to Do?’ Searching for Missing Persons in Israel\nChapter 4. A Right to Disappear? The State, Regulatory Politics and the Entitlements of Kinship\nPART II. Politics of Disappearances: (State) Violence and Its Aftermath\nChapter 5. Disappearance via Adoption: On Missing Children in Spain (1936–96)\nChapter 6. Enforced Disappearances, Colonial Legacies and Political Affect in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya\nChapter 7. Chroniclers of Violence in Contemporary Mexico: Feminist Reflections on Memory and Disappearance\nPART III. Alternative Ways of Knowing: Mediating Absences, Negotiating Disappearances\nChapter 8. Murky Disappearances: How Competing Narratives Obscure Structures of Power along the France– UK Border\nChapter 9. Being There in the Presence of Absence: Researching the Remains of Migrant Disappearances\nChapter 10. Negotiating Epistemic Uncertainties: Coming to Terms with Migrant Disappearances in the Western Mediterranean\nChapter 11. The Mediterranean as a Forensic Archive\nAfterword. Imaginations and Traces of the Disappeared\nIndex