Making sense of clandestine graves: Material epistemology and the political geography of uncertain knowledge

IF 4.7 1区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Political Geography Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI:10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103223
Graham Denyer Willis , Angélica Durán-Martínez
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How might we begin to establish meaning, understanding and justice out of something that is meant not to be found? In this article, we approach the growing problem of clandestine graves to ask what can be read from them, including why they matter, why they are found, and how they are becoming an intractable part of life for millions of citizens. Departing from the clandestine graves of São Paulo and Mexico, we argue that these material spaces are produced by ambiguous governance structures, and in turn reproduce them in ways that are unevenly knowable. The characteristics of these spaces that are otherwise shrouded in suspicion and deliberate efforts to make them unknowable reveal patterns and practices of political order while simultaneously creating certainty and fear about the governance they perpetuate. In taking the mass grave as an epistemology, we seek to establish identifiable tenents and patterns for further research and action while recognizing the challenges in asserting a knowledge claim about material spaces that are so intentionally, but unevenly, unknowable.
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地下坟墓的意义:物质认识论与不确定知识的政治地理学
我们如何开始从那些注定不会被发现的东西中确立意义、理解和正义?在这篇文章中,我们将探讨日益严重的秘密坟墓问题,询问从这些坟墓中可以读出什么,包括它们为什么重要、为什么会被发现,以及它们如何成为数百万公民生活中难以解决的一部分。从圣保罗和墨西哥的地下墓穴出发,我们认为这些物质空间是由模棱两可的治理结构产生的,反过来又以不均衡的可知方式再现了治理结构。这些空间的特征本来是笼罩在怀疑和刻意使其不为人所知的努力中的,但它们揭示了政治秩序的模式和实践,同时又为它们所延续的治理创造了确定性和恐惧感。在将万人冢作为一种认识论的过程中,我们试图为进一步的研究和行动建立可识别的原则和模式,同时也认识到对有意但不均衡地不可知的物质空间提出知识主张所面临的挑战。
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期刊介绍: Political Geography is the flagship journal of political geography and research on the spatial dimensions of politics. The journal brings together leading contributions in its field, promoting international and interdisciplinary communication. Research emphases cover all scales of inquiry and diverse theories, methods, and methodologies.
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