Mellon Lecture: Why do some disappearances spark national outrage while others remain largely unseen?
This event will also be streamed on YouTube Live - no registration required.
Anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz examines a series of high-profile massacres that transpired in Mexico just over a decade ago. Between 2010 and 2012, three major massacres, San Fernando I (known as the 'massacre of the 72'), San Fernando II (in which 193 bodies were unearthed, with many more likely undiscovered), and Cadereyta (49 bodies), shocked Mexico and drew international attention.
In this talk, Lomnitz contrasts these events with the far more frequent disappearances of small groups of migrants that rarely generate comparable public outcry, revealing how different forms of violence become politically recognized or remain obscured.
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