Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction. Why an Anthropology of Disappearance? A Tentative Introduction 1
5. PART I. Voicing Disappearances: Violence, Intimacies and Afterlives
6. Chapter 1. ‘Who Has Taken My Son (Amar Cheleke Ke Nilo)?’ Pervasive Missingness, Custodial Disappearances and Revolutionary Violence in Urban India 31
7. Chapter 2. On the Slow Silencing of Absences: Sensing Social Disappearances in Cape Verde 52
8. Chapter 3. ‘What to Do?’ Searching for Missing Persons in Israel 73
9. Chapter 4. A Right to Disappear? The State, Regulatory Politics and the Entitlements of Kinship 94
10. PART II. Politics of Disappearances: (State) Violence and Its Aftermath
11. Chapter 5. Disappearance via Adoption: On Missing Children in Spain (1936–96) 119
12. Chapter 6. Enforced Disappearances, Colonial Legacies and Political Affect in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya 142
13. Chapter 7. Chroniclers of Violence in Contemporary Mexico: Feminist Reflections on Memory and Disappearance 162
14. PART III. Alternative Ways of Knowing: Mediating Absences, Negotiating Disappearances
15. Chapter 8. Murky Disappearances: How Competing Narratives Obscure Structures of Power along the France– UK Border 187
16. Chapter 9. Being There in the Presence of Absence: Researching the Remains of Migrant Disappearances 207
17. Chapter 10. Negotiating Epistemic Uncertainties: Coming to Terms with Migrant Disappearances in the Western Mediterranean 228
18. Chapter 11. The Mediterranean as a Forensic Archive 247
19. Afterword. Imaginations and Traces of the Disappeared 269
20. Index 283