Overview

Book of the Disappeared highlights the ways in which genocide and enforced disappearances are intertwined—each centering on human rights violations. The quest for human rights protection has turned into a global movement both in democratic and undemocratic societies. Human rights advocates—academic and practitioners—along with the victims' families have kept genocide and enforced disappearance in the spotlight. This book draws on insight and expertise of human rights advocates worldwide and each chapter is informed by in-depth study of a given country. Scattered throughout the book are interludes, presented as short “factoids,” historic and contemporary, intended to magnify the topics of disappearance, genocide, and transitional justice. They contain thought-provoking art pieces to illustrate some of the work being done by contemporary artists to address issues of injustice, disappearance and genocide.

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Author:   Jennifer Heath ,  Ashraf Zahedi
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780472055937

ISBN 10:   0472055933
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   30 May 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Artwork Introduction JENNIFER HEATH and ASRAF ZAHEDI Interlude: Index of the Disappeared CHITRA GANESH and MARIAM GHANI 1 ─ Latin America's Contributions to the Development of Institutional Responses to Enforced Disappearances ARIEL E. DULITZKY 2 ─ The Impact of Enforced Disappearance on Women AMRITA KAPUR Interlude: Between Two Rivers SAMA ALSHAIBI 3 ─ Iraq: Enforced Disappearance as a Tool of War DIRK ADRIAENSENS 4 ─ Extraordinary Rendition: A Human Rights Analysis DAVID WEISSBRODT Interlude: Abu Ghraib NANCY MARON 5 ─ Lives in Limbo: Afghanistan’s Epidemic of Disappearances DALAS MAZOORI and STEFAN SCHMITT 6 ─ Vanishing Nation: Enforced Disappearances in Syria SARETA ASHRAPH and NICOLETTE WALDMAN Interlude: Do Not Forget Us: La Tanssana HELEN ZUGHAIB 7 ─ Politics of Silence and Denial: 1988 Enforced Disappearances and Executions in Iran ASHRAF ZAHEDI Interlude: The Eyes YASSI GOLSHANI 8 ─ The Legacy of Wartime Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina EDINA BEĆIREVIĆ and MAJDA HALIOVIĆ 9 ─ Genocide of the Rohingya AKILA RADHAKEISHNAN and ELENA SARVER Interlude: The Elephant and the Pond of Blood LEANG SECKON 10 ─ The Khmer Rouge Bureaucrats: Counting the Missing JAMES A. TYNER Interlude: Lynch Fragments MELVIN EDWARDS 11 ─ Our Resilient Bodies: The Role of Forensic Science and Medicine in Restoring the Disappeared to History SOREN BLAU Interlude: In Between/Underneath (Entremedio/Por Debajo) JONATHAN HERRERA SOTO 12 ─ Retributive or Restorative Justice: Gacaca Courts’ Contribution to Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in poet-Genocide Rwanda HILMI ZAWATI 13 ─ MIA: Disappearing Political Analysis in Transnational Justice VASUKI NESIAH Interlude: Stolen MORGAN C. PAGE 14 ─ Story as Portal: Healing, Regeneration, and Possibility After Genocide KAYHAN IRANI 15 ─ The Psychology of Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Heroic Helpers ERVIN STAUB About the Contributors Index

Reviews

"""By documenting the impact of victims who have turned activists and formed effective grassroots movements with global impact, Book of the Disappeared provides a roadmap for the reader who wants to become familiar with global movements for justice that had their roots in communities where these atrocities occurred. Any person interested in human rights, international justice, the voice of the silenced, will be interested to read this book."" --Avideh Shashaani, President, Fund for the Future of our Children --Avideh Shashaani ""Book of the Disappeared is destined to be an essential work in the field of human rights for years to come. The authors argue that the search for the disappeared must be conducted for three reasons: to locate, identify, and return the remains of the disappeared to family members for proper burial; to gather evidence to hold perpetrators accountable; and to set the historical record straight."" --Eric Stover, Co-Faculty Director, Human Rights Center, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley--Eric Stover ""Book of the Disappeared provides new ways of conceiving enforced disappearances free from the weight of old referents. It helps us understand this as a global problem, allowing us to enter into wide geographical horizons, which until now have been largely invisible."" --Gabriel Gatti, Professor of Sociology, University of the Basque Country, Spain--Gabriel Gatti ""This book is an essential read because it reviews the issues connected to enforced disappearances and documents their widespread global nature. This is a tour de force, written by some of the most well-known researchers, with deep knowledge about these matters. The book usefully evaluates the crimes committed and the quest for justice."" --Jeremy Julian Sarkin, Distinguished Research Professor of Law, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal and Former Chair-Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances--Jeremy Julian Sarkin ""This is a welcome contribution to the field of transitional justice as it presents a plethora of historical and ongoing case studies of importance for specialist and nonspecialist audiences to understand the grave consequences of political violence to individuals and societies."" --Sonja Biserko, President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia--Sonja Biserko Heath and Zahedi's titular diction (""quest"" and ""justice"") guides the reader towards this impressionable futurity: a quest is both a journey and a seeking, a quest(ion) that requires crossing into unknown and (sometimes unknowable) spaces. What Book of the Disappeared ultimately seeks is this question of justice: how do we make legible and judgeable the extrajudicial and ""arbitrary deprivation of right to life"" that is enforced disappearance? --Haley Eazor, E3W Review of Books"

Author Information

Jennifer Heath is an Independent scholar, Author/Editor, Activist, and Curator. Ashraf Zahedi, a sociologist, is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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