Mourning Remains : State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru's Postwar Andes / Isaias Rojas-Perez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rojas-Perez, Isaias, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disappeared persons--Peru.

Disappeared persons.

Disappeared persons' families--Peru.

Disappeared persons' families.

Quechua Indians--Crimes against--Peru.

Quechua Indians.

State-sponsored terrorism--Peru.

State-sponsored terrorism.

Exhumation--Political aspects--Peru.

Exhumation.

Transitional justice--Peru.

Transitional justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Mourning Remains examines the attempts to find, recover, and identify the bodies of Peruvians who were disappeared during the 1980s and 1990s counterinsurgency campaign in Peru's central southern Andes. Isaias Rojas-Perez explores the lives and political engagement of elderly Quechua mothers as they attempt to mourn and seek recognition for their kin. Of the estimated 16,000 Peruvians disappeared during the conflict, only the bodies of 3,202 victims have been located, and only 1,833 identified. The rest remain unknown or unfound, scattered across the country and often shattered beyond recognition. Rojas-Perez examines how, in the face of the state's failure to account for their missing dead, the mothers rearrange senses of community, belonging, authority, and the human to bring the disappeared back into being through everyday practices of mourning and memorialization. Mourning Remains reveals how collective mourning becomes a political escape from the state's project of governing past death and how the dead can help secure the future of the body politic.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Map of Ayacucho

Introduction

1. Death in Transition

2. Malamuerte

3. Excavating State Atrocity

4. The Cry

5. Caprichakuspa

6. Talking Soul

7. The Magic of Justice

8. “The Glory of the Disappeared”

Afterword

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781503602632

150360263X

OCLC:

1178770127