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Policing the Mexican Past
This book critically examines transitional justice in Mexico. It explores how the Mexican democratic regime dealt with the grave human rights violations perpetrated by security forces during the authoritarian era (1929-2000) through a Special Prosecutor’s Office. It offers a complete account of the diverse factors that facilitated the emergence (and policing) of Mexico's transitional justice process. Whilst transitional justice should contribute to the advancement of liberal democracy and, consequently, generate the following benefits: truth, justice, political reconciliation, peace, this book argues that Mexico is a case of transitional injustice. It is an example of how in some societies transitional justice mechanisms are intentionally implemented in ways that, instead of generating justice, produce impunity. It makes important contributions to some of the broader debates addressed by scholars on transitional justice and gives them reason to re-examine transitional justice processes in other countries in a new light.
The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law
The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law analyses how lawyers representing refugees use human rights provisions in national constitutions to close the gap between the Law and it's implementation. Focusing on five countries (Colombia, Mexico, South Africa, Uganda, the United States) the book examines how lawyers adapt creatively to social, political, and legal contexts. Many refugee-receiving states openly reject or passively ignore their obligation under international law to protect refugees. For this reason, cause lawyers (those who use the law to empower others) have turned to constitutionalized human rights law. While many countries likely included such provisions in their constituti...
Necropower in North America
This book discusses and theorizes Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics, the politics of death, in the specific context of North America. It works to characterize and analyze the particularities and relational differences of American and Canadian necropowers vis-à-vis their devices, subjectivities, necroempowered subjects, and production of spaces of death in their geographical and symbolic borderlands with the Third World: the US-Mexico border, indigenous lands, migrant and Black-American neighborhoods, and resource rich geographies. North American necropowers not only profit from death, but also conduct disposable populations to death throughout the region. The volume proposes a postcolonial perspective that characterizes the political power of North America as a necropower—or the sovereign power to make die. Each chapter therefore theorizes and analyzes the specificities of necropower, examining different necropolitics that range from asylum and migration restrictions to the economic exploitation and abandonment of deprived populations and policing of ethnic minorities, in particular Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples, and African American communities.
Transitional Justice and Memory in Cambodia
Memories of violence, suffering and atrocities in Cambodia are today being pulled in different directions. A range of transitional justice practices have been put to work in the name of redressing, restoring and renewing memory. At the centre of this stage is the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), a hybrid tribunal established to prosecute the leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, under which 1.6 million Cambodians died of hunger or disease or were executed. This book unpicks the way memory is reconstructed through appeals to a national memory, the legal reframing and coding of memories as crimes, and bids to locate personal memories within collective biographies. Analysin...
The Individualization of War
The Individualization of War examines the status of individuals in contemporary armed conflict in three main capacities: as subject to violence but deserving of protection; as liable to harm because of their responsibility for attacks on others; and as agents who can be held accountable for the perpetration of crimes.
Las violencias
Después de 12 años del inicio de la ''guerra contra las drogas'' en México, aún es difícil dimensionar la trascendencia de esta decisión. Hoy estamos viviendo otro momento de la guerra y, en muchos sentidos, sus implicaciones y consecuencias se acumulan e intensifican. A partir de un abanico de metodologías multidisciplinarias, los autores identifican la coacción como característica de las acciones del gobierno frente a las drogas. Los textos aquí reunidos documentan y analizan las intervenciones del gobierno centradas en ciertos tipos de violencia en el entramado normativo que regula las drogas, a fin de comprender mejor la ruta en la que México se aventuró hace una década y que aún continúa.
Human Displacement from a Global South Perspective
This book focuses on inclusion and governance agenda on the issue of migration within a framework of South-South cooperation. Increasing migration waves present an extraordinary and complex challenge to the international community. In the existing literature, migration processes have been described mostly from Western perspectives, and although these perspectives are analytically relevant, they lack the advantage of a broader interpretation. Taking a Global South approach, this volume gives voices to authors from several Latin American and Latin European universities to offer a more dynamic discussion of the challenges of migration in the twenty-first century. The authors take a broad perspective of global migration, with a focus on case studies from the Global South that highlight Latin American and North African experiences in particular.
Verdeckter Widerstand in demokratischen Gesellschaften
Verdeckten Widerstand gab und gibt es nicht nur in vordemokratischen und autoritär geführten Gesellschaften, sondern auch in vielen Bereichen gegenwärtiger Demokratien. Die vielfältigen Formen der verborgenen Auflehnung, Gegenwehr und Dissidenz sagen diagnostisch viel über demokratische Gesellschaften und ihre Missstände aus, wie die empirischen und theoretischen Beiträge dieses Bandes zeigen. Was ist an Demokratien falsch, wenn sich Widerstand in weiten gesellschaftlichen Bereichen nur im Verborgenen zu äußern vermag? Was ist am Widerstand und seinen Begründungsmustern problematisch, wenn sie sich der öffentlichen Artikulation entziehen? Diese beiden Fragen umschreiben das breite Spektrum der Beiträge aus unterschiedlichen sozial- und geisteswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen. Unter den Autor:innen befinden sich unter anderem Friederike Bahl, Ketevan Gurchiani, Axel Honneth, Jennet Kirkpatrick, Martin Saar, William E. Scheuerman, James C. Scott und Peter Wagner.
