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OverviewDisappearance is marked by a devastating absence. It constitutes a form of violence that rips open a wound in time, offering no viable recovery and no meaningful justice. It provides alibis to perpetrators while denying victims their humanity. For those who are left to live with its presence, the terror is infinite. State of Disappearance brings together the power of artistic testimony and witnessing with critical voices to ask deeper questions about extreme violence, the normalization of human vanishing, state and ideological complicity, and memorialization, along with wider concerns about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. A gallery of dedicated artworks by Mexican abstract painter Chantal Meza inspires each chapter, bringing the aesthetic into critical conversation and leading to a multidisciplinary collection that charts a new path for recovering humanity in the face of its annihilation. Featuring contributions from theorists of violence who are concerned with the issue of forcibly removing humans from the surface of the earth, while also appreciative of the complex layers of appearance and disappearance in the contemporary world, the book attends to the many ways disappearance occurs and the ethical questions this raises. State of Disappearance traverses the difficult terrain of human denial to rethink some of the most devastating chapters in human history and their enduring relevance to our lives. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Brad Evans , Chantal MezaPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN: 9780228018957ISBN 10: 0228018951 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 15 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews“State of Disappearance contains many brilliant insights, punctuated powerfully by images of Chantal Meza's paintings.” Asha Varadharajan, Queen's University Author InformationBrad Evans is chair of political violence and director of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Bath and founder and director of the online Histories of Violence project. Chantal Meza is an abstract painter living and working in the United Kingdom. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, Paraguay, and the United Kingdom. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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