Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay

1. Introduction: Sociology from the Gut
Gabriel Gatti

2. A Catastrophe for Identity and Meaning: Forced Disappearance, Modernity, and Civilization
Gabriel Gatti

3. Activists of Meaning: Bringing Order to Ruins, Remaking Archives, and Undoing Traumas
Gabriel Gatti

4. Moral Techniques: Recovering Disappeared Identities through Forensic Anthropology
Gabriel Gatti

5. The Meaning-Preserving Machinery of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo
Gabriel Gatti

6. Art and Science Struggling with the Absence of Meaning
Gabriel Gatti

7. Noisy Silences: The Testimonial Work of the Former Detained-Disappeared
Gabriel Gatti

8. Serious Parodies: “Children of” Inhabiting (More or Less Joyfully) the Absence
Gabriel Gatti

9. Transnationalization of the Detained-Disappeared, Social Creativity, and Other Unintended Consequences of Forced Disappearance
Gabriel Gatti

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Latin American Politics, Latin American Culture, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Sociology, general, Human Rights