Journal of Disappearance Studies

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The Journal of Disappearance Studies focuses on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, especially enforced disappearance. 1st issue publishing in 2025 https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/jds

Journal of Disappearance Studies: Now online.
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We welcome contributions that advance our collective understanding of the following key themes and explore new avenues for research, policy advocacy, and practice in addressing the legacies and ongoing tragedies of disappearance:

Human Rights violations, including the responsibility of states, state-backed actors and non-state armed groups;
Responses within the frameworks of domestic legal regimes, International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law;
Forensic techniques in the search for the disappeared;
Transitional justice and the rights of victims of disappearance to justice, truth, reparation and nonrecurrence;
Historical perspectives on disappearances;
Psychological and emotional impact of disappearances;
Social and political impact of disappearances;
International solidarity and advocacy against disappearances;
Activism and resistance in relation to disappearances;
Gender and feminist perspectives on disappearances;
The evolving dynamics of emerging forms of disappearance;
Artistic responses to disappearances;
Philosophical approaches to understanding disappearances;
Theoretical framing of disappearances.