Outside the borders of the state, abandonment. On the new forms of disappearance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12912936 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Liechty (0000-0002-0435-5074, University of the Basque Country, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soc4.13089 |
| OpenAlex | W4324195295 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 41 |
In this article I propose an expanded definition of the categories of “disappearance” and “disappeared” with which to address situations marked by abandonment. In the first movement, I provide a critical description of the scientific literature available about disappearance in several fields, in particular legal and political sociology. Both have gradually constructed an interpretation that, while legally effective, sociologically sensitive, and socially successful, currently find themselves overwhelmed. The second movement confirms that the dominant meaning of disappearance and disappeared has been overwhelmed, and it addresses how that overwhelming affects three of their characteristics: the timeframes of reference for both categories (the past and memory); the anthropological assumptions that underpin the two (the bad death and the (im)possibility of its conventional management); and the normative social frameworks that both take as “a given” (the state and citizenship, and the forms of political agency associated with them). Finally, the third movement deals with different experiences of field research related to very open uses of the idea of disappearance, to gather different efforts of theoretical problematization that currently, and in various fields of social science research, turn disappearance and disappeared into tools for analyzing social forms of abandonment
Abandonment (legal · Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Citizenship · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Interpretation (philosophy · Meaning (existential · Movement (music · Normative · Political science · Politics · Problematization · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Philosophy
Heaven
A Passion for Society
Ghostly Matters
Desapariciones
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
Retour au Contrat naturel
Missing
Necropolitics
Unfinished
Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina's Dictatorship
State Repression and the Labors of Memory
La presencia de la ausencia. Hacia una antropología de la vida póstuma de los desaparecidos en el Perú
The Empire of Trauma
Toward a sociology of family movements
The first attempts in Mexico and Central America to address the phenomenon of missing and disappeared migrants
Protection of migrants from enforced disappearance
Undressing Corpses – An Archaeological Perspective on State Violence
Social Theory and Social Structure
The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance
Lovecidal
Border beings. Present absences among migrants in the Spanish enclave of Melilla
Desiertos, mares, islas
Immigrés, sans-papiers, des travailleurs en deçà de la citoyenneté
Arqueología de la desaparición
Inhabiting Mourning
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom
The Land of Open Graves
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Expulsions
Vita
The Social Disappeared
Discounted Deaths
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |