Abstract

YANKELEVICH WINOCUR, Javier; ESPINOSA ALVAREZ, Guadalupe Yadira; MINOR GARDUNO, Zacnité  and  REYES MONTIJO, Brenda Magali. The disappeared nobody hid: towards a social taphonomy of the administrative disappearance. Alteridades [online]. 2022, vol.32, n.64, pp.35-46.  Epub Feb 20, 2023. ISSN 2448-850X.  https://doi.org/10.24275/uam/izt/dcsh/alteridades/2022v32n64/yankelevich.

If the absence of disappeared individuals is caused exclusively by typified behaviors such as crimes delineated in the General Law of the Disappeared (Ley General de Desaparición) is assumed, the a priori hypothesis of relevant location, including regarding the individuals whose absence is not connected to the charge of any crime, is excluded even though they may be caused by structural violence. Through the National Committee for the Search of Persons (Comisión Nacional de Búsqueda de Personas) the generalized data search methodology is presented, which stems from the understanding of institutional routes for the availability of bodies reconstructed through social taphonomy. By way of applying this methodology to the study case it is that a new concept called administrative disappearance is proposed.

Keywords : disappeared persons; generalized search; mass grace; availability of bodies.