Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices
This book examines human disappearances in various contexts, ranging from enforced disappearances under oppressive governments and during armed conflicts to disappearing undocumented migrants and, finally, to people who go missing under more everyday circumstances in the Global North. The book argue...
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| author | Huttunen, Laura |
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| description | This book examines human disappearances in various contexts, ranging from enforced disappearances under oppressive governments and during armed conflicts to disappearing undocumented migrants and, finally, to people who go missing under more everyday circumstances in the Global North. The book argues that a missing person is always an anomaly in relation to the social and cultural order, and every disappeared person disturbs the normal flow of social life in families and communities, often also the smooth working of state bureaucracies. The book analyses both the circumstances that make some people disappear and the variety of responses that disappearances give rise to; the latter include projects focused on searching for the missing and identifying unidentified dead bodies, as well as political projects that call for accountability for disappearances. Moreover, the book examines more symbolic forms or reappearance, including museums, memorials, artworks, ghosts and spirits. Empirical examples range from Argentina to Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Mediterranean, Finland, Poland and beyond. Departing from this diversity, the book provides a theoretical frame within which to think about disappearances across cultural, political and geographical variety. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1590192025-05-02T04:51:02Z Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices Huttunen, Laura missing person; enforced disappearance; liminality; undocumented migration; anthropology of death; exhumations; necropolitics; Argentina: Bosnia-Herzegovina; Finland This book examines human disappearances in various contexts, ranging from enforced disappearances under oppressive governments and during armed conflicts to disappearing undocumented migrants and, finally, to people who go missing under more everyday circumstances in the Global North. The book argues that a missing person is always an anomaly in relation to the social and cultural order, and every disappeared person disturbs the normal flow of social life in families and communities, often also the smooth working of state bureaucracies. The book analyses both the circumstances that make some people disappear and the variety of responses that disappearances give rise to; the latter include projects focused on searching for the missing and identifying unidentified dead bodies, as well as political projects that call for accountability for disappearances. Moreover, the book examines more symbolic forms or reappearance, including museums, memorials, artworks, ghosts and spirits. Empirical examples range from Argentina to Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Mediterranean, Finland, Poland and beyond. Departing from this diversity, the book provides a theoretical frame within which to think about disappearances across cultural, political and geographical variety. 2025-05-02T04:51:01Z 2025-05-02T04:51:01Z 2025-05-01T09:52:03Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101221 9781526177032 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159019 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101221/1/9781526177049.pdf Manchester University Press 10.7765/9781526177049 10.7765/9781526177049 bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 9781526177032 199 open access |
| spellingShingle | missing person; enforced disappearance; liminality; undocumented migration; anthropology of death; exhumations; necropolitics; Argentina: Bosnia-Herzegovina; Finland Huttunen, Laura Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices |
| title | Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices |
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| title_short | Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices |
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| topic | missing person; enforced disappearance; liminality; undocumented migration; anthropology of death; exhumations; necropolitics; Argentina: Bosnia-Herzegovina; Finland |
| topic_facet | missing person; enforced disappearance; liminality; undocumented migration; anthropology of death; exhumations; necropolitics; Argentina: Bosnia-Herzegovina; Finland |
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