Overview
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 amidst Mexico’s ongoing humanitarian crisis over the last decade. Yael Siman and Matthew Hone analyze this grassroots mobilization and argue that these 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Yael Siman ,
Matthew Hone
Publisher: Lexington Books
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.735kg
ISBN: 9781666906134
ISBN 10: 1666906131
Pages: 410
Publication Date: 03 September 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
"""Victim Activists in Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances is an essential book to understand the different historical and structural factors as well as the more recent conditions that have led to such a devastating rise in violence and enforced disappearances. Centering the voices of families of the victims and activist groups led mainly by Mexican women, this book provides a necessary and urgent account of what is at stake in the social and political mobilization to search for the disappeared and the demands for truth, justice, reparations, memory, and non-repetition in the face of state neglect, continuing threats to life and the rupture of the social fabric in Mexico. It shows the strength, the pain, and the power of those who are working to transform these conditions for the whole of Mexican society, beginning at the local level."" --Alexandra D�lano Alonso, The New School"
Author Information
Yael Siman is associate professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Iberoamericana University, Mexico City. Matthew Hone is adjunct professor at Stockton University in New Jersey and teaches courses related to genocide and state and non-state violence in Latin America.
