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This special issue of ACME is devoted to advancing critical geographic research on the global human tragedy that is enforced disappearance. According to seemingly conservative, recent estimates, there are over 53,0001 cases of unresolved... more
This special issue of ACME is devoted to advancing critical geographic research on the global human tragedy that is enforced disappearance. According to seemingly conservative, recent estimates, there are over 53,0001 cases of unresolved enforced disappearances across the globe (The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, 2011), while only 38 countries have ratified the 2006 United Nations Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (as of 2013, United Nations Treaty Collection). This admittedly limited picture reveals a significant global imbalance of justice toward the cessation of this geographically widespread practice of political violence. However, the legacy and implications of the pervasiveness of enforced disappearance yields a writhing effect. This impact the haunts spaces of the families of the disappeared, is located in the psyches of societies where systematic campaigns of enforced disappearance have been empl...
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