TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigación forense profunda para una justicia más que humana
AU - Torres, María
AU - Smith, Lindsay A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This article is a product of the insights derived from the following projects: “Migrant DNA: The Science of Disappearance and Death across the Mexican Borderlands,” Wenner-Gren Foundation, International Collaborative Research Grant, January 2016-December 2018; “Technologies on the Border; Migration, Human, Rights, and Security,” National Science Foundation CAREER Grant #1944981, July 2020-present.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota Colombia. All rights reserved.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Buscadora collectives in Mexico have developed unique and transformative forensic practices to search for their disappeared loved ones. We examine the work of three collectives, each working in distinct political, ecological, and historical contexts to better understand emergent forms of local citizen-led forensic practice. Attending to spaces, that exist alongside but exceed contemporary forensic practice, we critically reexamine the practice of forensics in the context of the humanitarian and forensic ‘crisis’ in Mexico. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with forensic scientists and buscadora collectives between 2015-2022, we develop three case studies that analyze the collectives’ work in three registers: The (inter)relational, the geo-logic, and the more-than-human. We argue for the emergence of a deep forensics based on collective practices that privilege fragile, multi-valent forms of knowledge production, attend to slow violence, and move beyond an exclusively human-centered episteme. These alternative practices have the potential to displace the crisis time of contemporary state-led forensics and better document the entangled contexts of ‘stratigraphic violence’ in contemporary Mexico allowing for an emergent more-than-human justice.
AB - Buscadora collectives in Mexico have developed unique and transformative forensic practices to search for their disappeared loved ones. We examine the work of three collectives, each working in distinct political, ecological, and historical contexts to better understand emergent forms of local citizen-led forensic practice. Attending to spaces, that exist alongside but exceed contemporary forensic practice, we critically reexamine the practice of forensics in the context of the humanitarian and forensic ‘crisis’ in Mexico. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with forensic scientists and buscadora collectives between 2015-2022, we develop three case studies that analyze the collectives’ work in three registers: The (inter)relational, the geo-logic, and the more-than-human. We argue for the emergence of a deep forensics based on collective practices that privilege fragile, multi-valent forms of knowledge production, attend to slow violence, and move beyond an exclusively human-centered episteme. These alternative practices have the potential to displace the crisis time of contemporary state-led forensics and better document the entangled contexts of ‘stratigraphic violence’ in contemporary Mexico allowing for an emergent more-than-human justice.
KW - Buscadoras
KW - Citizen science
KW - Deep forensics
KW - Geo-logics
KW - Morethan-human
KW - Stratigraphic violence
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U2 - 10.7440/antipoda50.2023.08
DO - 10.7440/antipoda50.2023.08
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85148900472
SN - 1900-5407
VL - 2023
SP - 173
EP - 195
JO - Antipoda
JF - Antipoda
IS - 50
ER -