Janice Gallagher

Janice Gallagher is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark. She is completing her first book manuscript, entitled “Bootstrap Justice, The Search for Mexico’s Disappeared.“

Symposium
Empty Chairs

(Enforced) disappearances – when state and criminal perpetrators blur

Janice Gallagher

Mexico intellectual and organizer Gustavo Esteva uses “lodo” (lit. mud, Spanish), as an analogy to talk about violence in Mexico. For Esteva, the State and organized crime are no longer separate entities –...