Abstract

MONARREZ FRAGOSO, Julia Estela. National amnesia of victims of torture. Estud. sociol [online]. 2017, vol.35, n.104, pp.239-265. ISSN 2448-6442.  https://doi.org/10.24201/es.2017v35n104.1512.

To release from government's amnesia the torture suffered by a significant proportion of women and men in Mexico, specifically, one segment of Ciudad Juarez's population, requires an academic commitment. The time frame I analyzed are the years 20062015. I make a nexus between two Chicana/Latina/Feminist theoreticians Nicole Guidotti- Hernández's narratives of national amnesia; Lisa Marie Cacho's people ineligible for personhood, and Achille Mbembes's necropolitics; and Tzvetan Todorov's governments' four techniques to control memory. With this theoretical framework, I try to comprehend why some women and men are converted into torturables subjects and their torturers remain unknown to the State.

Keywords : torture; memory; necropolitics; social amnesia; abject lives.

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