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Bootstrap Justice - The Search for Mexico's Disappeared (Hardcover)
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Bootstrap Justice - The Search for Mexico's Disappeared (Hardcover)
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Since 2006, more than 85,000 people have disappeared in Mexico.
These disappearances remain largely unsolved: disappeared people
are rarely found, and the Mexican state almost never investigates
or prosecutes those responsible. Despite this, people not only
continue to report disappearances, but many devote their lives to
answering the question, "where are they?" Given the risks and
institutional barriers, why and how do people mobilize for justice
in states with rampant impunity and weak rule of law? In Bootstrap
Justice, Janice Gallagher leverages over a decade of ethnographic
research to explain what enables the sustained mobilization of
family members of the disappeared and analyze how configurations of
political power between state and criminal actors shape what is
possible for them to achieve. She follows three families from
before the disappearance of their loved ones through their
transformations into sophisticated and strategic victim advocates
and activists. Gallagher supplements these individual narratives
with an analysis of the evolving political opportunities for
mobilization within Mexico. By centering the perspectives of people
whose lives have been upended by the disappearance of their loved
ones, Bootstrap Justice offers a unique window into how citizens
respond to weak and corrupt institutions. Gallagher focuses on the
overlooked role of informal relationships and dynamics in shaping
substantive legal and human rights outcomes and highlights how
pioneering independent and creative work-arounds can compensate for
state inaction. While top-down efforts, such as judicial reforms,
technical assistance, and changes in political leadership are
important parts of addressing impunity, policymakers and scholars
alike have much to learn from the bottom-up-and by following the
path that citizens themselves have worn within the labyrinth of
state judicial bureaucracies.
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