Forced Disappearance as a Collective Cultural Trauma in the Ayotzinapa Movement. (November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gravante, Tommaso
• Other Names: Ellner Steve guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Latin American perspectives. Volume 47:Number 6(2020:Nov.)
• Page Start: 87
• Page End: 102
• Publication Date: 2020-11
• Subjects: Victims' movements -- Cultural trauma -- Forced disappearance -- Emotions -- Violence; Latin America -- Economic policy -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; 320.98
• DOI: 10.1177/0094582X20951773
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0094-582X

Abstract

The disappearance of 43 students of the teachers' training college at Ayotzinapa in 2014 has inspired a broad social movement. Ethnographic work and interviews conducted at several of the demonstrations to show solidarity with the parents of the students reveal that their forced disappearance has been framed by participants as a collective cultural trauma. The politicization of this trauma has led to a change in the relationship between citizens and public institutions and produced a new social narrative. La desaparición de 43 estudiantes de la escuela de formación de profesores en Ayotzinapa en 2014 inspiró un amplio movimiento social. Trabajo etnográfico y entrevistas realizadas durante varias de las manifestaciones para mostrar solidaridad con los padres de los estudiantes revelan que su desaparición forzada ha sido enmarcada por los participantes como un trauma cultural colectivo. La politización de este trauma ha llevado a un cambio en la relación entre los ciudadanos y las instituciones públicas y ha producido una nueva narrativa social.