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This thesis asks why contemporary disappearances in Brazil are not problematized. The politicisation of disappearances only makes visible cases involving leftist guerrilla members during the dictatorship (1964-1985). After that, disappearance started to be classed by the media a…

This thesis concerns the struggles over the production of the truth of state violence in Turkey in the three decades following the infamous 1980 military coup. Specifically, it focuses on cases of torture and enforced disappearance, two forms of violence which the state not only…