Book of the Disappeared: The Quest for Transnational Justice
edited by Jennifer Heath and Ashraf Zahedi
University of Michigan Press, 2023
eISBN: 978-0-472-90325-2 | Paper: 978-0-472-05593-7 | Cloth: 978-0-472-07593-5
Library of Congress Classification HV6322.B665 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 323.49
eISBN: 978-0-472-90325-2 | Paper: 978-0-472-05593-7 | Cloth: 978-0-472-07593-5
Library of Congress Classification HV6322.B665 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 323.49
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Book of the Disappeared confronts worldwide human rights violations of enforced disappearance and genocide and explores the global quest for justice with forceful, outstanding contributions by respected scholars, expert practitioners, and provocative contemporary artists. This profoundly humane book spotlights our historic inhumanity while offering insights for survival and transformation.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.
Ashraf Zahedi, a sociologist, is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
REVIEWS
— Avideh Shashaani
“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—Sonja Biserko, President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
“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—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
“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
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
“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—Gabriel Gatti, Professor of Sociology, University of the Basque Country, Spain
“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—Eric Stover, Co-Faculty Director, Human Rights Center, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Artwork
Introduction
JENNIFER HEATH and ASHRAF 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
Artwork
Introduction
JENNIFER HEATH and ASHRAF 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
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