Religion, Human Rights, and Forensic Activism

The Search for the Disappeared in Latin America

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ID3343008
AuthorsMaría Soledad Catoggio (0000-0002-6133-1626, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume11
Issue11
Pages601
Publication date2020-11-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel11110601
OpenAlexW3099313254
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

This paper systematizes and analyzes the links and exchanges between the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense (EAAF)) and the world of religion. My hypothesis is that these links are inextricable from the mode of operation that defined the EAAF, which can be called "forensic activism". This kind of activism, outside the State, combined scientific expertise with humanitarian sensitivity, defined by its autonomy from the human rights movement and the national scientific system (both academic and university). Moreover, religion emerged constantly from the type of work undertaken, between the living and the dead. Thus, beliefs, with their prohibitions, rituals, and ways of making sense of suffering and their tools for coming to terms with grief, coexisted with the EAAF's development. These findings emerge from a qualitative research design combining document analysis, in-depth interviews, and participative observation of scientific disclosure open to the public provided by the EAAF over the past three years

Autonomy · Criminology · Human rights · Latin Americans · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Memory, violence, and history · Religion and Society in Latin America

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