Currently, Mexico experiences a generalized problem of the disappearance of people in the context of criminal and institutional violence. As of December 2021, the total number of people who disappeared amounts to 95.000, whose number triggered a forensic crisis around the treatment of bodies and clandestine and common graves. Thousands of these disappearances were attributed to organized crime. ‘A Grave to Mourn’: Body, Moral/Religious Representations and Justice Around Disappearance in Mexico, I argue that the humanitarian crisis due to disappearance has reconsidered the traditional meaning of death in Mexico and in particular the role of the body as a sign and symbol of mourning and justice.
Keywords:
disappearance; violence; death; state; justice