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Call the Mothers
A gripping portrait of the relentless women taking missing persons, kidnapping, and extortion cases into their own hands—and building a movement for one another. In this riveting exploration of the lives of mothers whose children are among the 100,000 disappeared in Mexico’s war on drugs, Shaylih Muehlmann shows how families have mobilized on the ground to get answers and justice. It is often mothers who confront government corruption, indifference, and incompetence by taking on the responsibilities of searching for missing persons and dealing with kidnapping and extortion cases. In bringing the voices of these women to the fore, Muehlmann demonstrates how the war on drugs affects everyday life in Mexico and how these activists have become detectives, forensic specialists, and even negotiators with drug traffickers. Call the Mothers provides a unique look at a grassroots movement that draws from the symbolic power of motherhood to build a network of collectives that redefine traditional gender roles and challenge injustice and impunity.
Victim Activists in Mexico
Victim Activists in Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances examines the collective action of the courageous family members of the disappeared in the midst of Mexico’s ongoing humanitarian crisis over the last decades. Yael Siman and Matthew Hone analyze this grassroots mobilization and argue that the activists have created rutinary, contentious, and innovative types of resistance through building local and trans-local links of support and solidarity that reinforce their struggle. This mobilization from below has contributed to constructing transitional justice including laws, public apologies, and memorials. The combination of internal and external factors impacting the collectives and their environment has enabled significant changes in the institutions, state responses, and the victimhood narratives in the country. This book adds to the scholarship on the collective action of grieving families by focusing on both the social and political aspects of mobilization.
The New Public Art
Essays on the rise of community-focused art projects and anti-monuments in Mexico since the 1980s. Mexico has long been lauded and studied for its post-revolutionary public art, but recent artistic practices have raised questions about how public art is created and for whom it is intended. In The New Public Art, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, together with a number of scholars, artists, and activists, looks at the rise of community-focused art projects, from collective cinema to off-stage dance and theatre, and the creation of anti-monuments that have redefined what public art is and how people have engaged with it across the country since the 1980s. The New Public Art investigates the reemergence ...
Disappearances in Mexico
This volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the practice of disappearances in Mexico, from the period of the so-called ‘dirty war’ to the current crisis of disappearances associated with the country’s ‘war on drugs’, during which more than 80,000 people have disappeared. The volume brings together contributions by distinguished scholars from Mexico, Argentina and Europe, who focus their chapters on four broad axes of enquiry. In Part I, chapters examine the phenomenon of disappearances in its historical and present-day forms, and the struggles for memory around the disappeared in Mexico with reference to Argentina. Part II addresses the political dimensions of disappearan...
The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education
This companion demonstrates how art, craft, and visual culture education activate social imagination and action that is equity- and justice-driven. Specifically, this book provides arts-engaged, intersectional understandings of decolonization in the contemporary art world that cross disciplinary lines. Visual and traditional essays in this book combine current scholarship with pragmatic strategies and insights grounded in the reality of socio-cultural, political, and economic communities across the globe. Across three sections (creative shorts, enacted encounters, and ruminative research), a diverse group of authors address themes of histories, space and land, mind and body, and the digital realm. Chapters highlight and illustrate how artists, educators, and researchers grapple with decolonial methods, theories, and strategies—in research, artmaking, and pedagogical practice. Each chapter includes discursive questions and resources for further engagement with the topics at hand. The book is targeted towards scholars and practitioners of art education, studio art, and art history, K-12 art teachers, as well as artist educators and teaching artists in museums and communities.
Archivos en transición
Mit dem "archival turn" wurde das Archiv zu einem Zentralbegriff der Gedächtnisforschung. Ehedem eine staubige Angelegenheit und Orte offiziellen Herrschaftswissens, enthalten und erzählen Archive Geschichten im Spannungsfeld von individuellem und kollektivem Gedächtnis. Infolge von Digitalisierung und neuen institutionellen Zugängen verwandeln sie sich oftmals in konterdiskursive Reflexionsinstanzen. In Lateinamerika spielen die "Menschenrechtsarchive" eine zentrale Rolle bei der Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit. Subalterne Gruppen rekontextualisieren und resemantisieren Archive, indem sie sie einerseits politisch nutzen und andererseits ästhetisch bearbeiten. Sie erweitern und transformieren bestehende Archive und leisten damit einen Beitrag zur Demokratisierung. Thematische Schwerpunkte des Bandes sind theoretische Konzepte und die methodischen Zugänge zu Archiven, ihre Ästhetik sowie Perspektiven, die sozialer und künstlerischer Aktivismus eröffnen können.
Die Aktualität bürgerlicher und politischer Menschenrechte
Im vorherrschenden westlichen Menschenrechtsdiskurs galten die bürgerlich-politischen Menschenrechte lange Zeit als die eigentlichen Menschenrechte, während wirtschaftliche, soziale und kulturelle Menschenrechte oft eher als politische Ziele denn als "echte" Rechte angesehen wurden. Doch inzwischen haben die lange Zeit vernachlässigten wsk-Rechte völkerrechtsdogmatisch und politisch immens an Bedeutung gewonnen und sind wichtiger Bestandteil des transnationalen Menschenrechtsdiskurses. Dies darf wiederum nicht dazu führen, dass den bürgerlichen und politischen Menschenrechten ihre Bedeutung abgesprochen wird. Autokratien weltweit zeigen, was geschieht, wenn der Staat töten und foltern...
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