Yael Siman is associate professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Iberoamericana University in Mexico City.Matthew Hone is adjunct professor at Stockton University in New Jersey.

“Victim Activists in Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances is an essential book to understand the different historical and structural factors as well as the more recent conditions that have led to such a devastating rise in violence and enforced disappearances. Centering the voices of families of the victims and activist groups led mainly by Mexican women, this book provides a necessary and urgent account of what is at stake in the social and political mobilization to search for the disappeared and the demands for truth, justice, reparations, memory, and non-repetition in the face of state neglect, continuing threats to life and the rupture of the social fabric in Mexico. It shows the strength, the pain, and the power of those who are working to transform these conditions for the whole of Mexican society, beginning at the local level.”

• Chapter 1. Grassroots Mobilization, Theory, and MethodChapter 2. Veracruz: A Case Study of Disappearances and the Grassroots Mobilization of FamiliesChapter 3. Perpetrators, Complicit Actors and Illicit InteractionsChapter 4. Personal Fracture and Family Responses to DisappearancesChapter 5. A Breath of Life: Victim Activists in VeracruzChapter 6. Collective Resistance: Confronting Radical EvilChapter 7. Social and Political Grassroots Mobilization: Types of ResistanceChapter 8. Social Mobilization and the Expansion of Opportunities and SupportChapter 9. Local and Trans-local Transitional Justice Outcomes from Below

Yael Siman is associate professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Iberoamericana University in Mexico City.Matthew Hone is adjunct professor at Stockton University in New Jersey.

“Victim Activists in Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances is an essential book to understand the different historical and structural factors as well as the more recent conditions that have led to such a devastating rise in violence and enforced disappearances. Centering the voices of families of the victims and activist groups led mainly by Mexican women, this book provides a necessary and urgent account of what is at stake in the social and political mobilization to search for the disappeared and the demands for truth, justice, reparations, memory, and non-repetition in the face of state neglect, continuing threats to life and the rupture of the social fabric in Mexico. It shows the strength, the pain, and the power of those who are working to transform these conditions for the whole of Mexican society, beginning at the local level.”

• Chapter 1. Grassroots Mobilization, Theory, and MethodChapter 2. Veracruz: A Case Study of Disappearances and the Grassroots Mobilization of FamiliesChapter 3. Perpetrators, Complicit Actors and Illicit InteractionsChapter 4. Personal Fracture and Family Responses to DisappearancesChapter 5. A Breath of Life: Victim Activists in VeracruzChapter 6. Collective Resistance: Confronting Radical EvilChapter 7. Social and Political Grassroots Mobilization: Types of ResistanceChapter 8. Social Mobilization and the Expansion of Opportunities and SupportChapter 9. Local and Trans-local Transitional Justice Outcomes from Below

Yael Siman is associate professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Iberoamericana University in Mexico City.Matthew Hone is adjunct professor at Stockton University in New Jersey.

“Victim Activists in Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances is an essential book to understand the different historical and structural factors as well as the more recent conditions that have led to such a devastating rise in violence and enforced disappearances. Centering the voices of families of the victims and activist groups led mainly by Mexican women, this book provides a necessary and urgent account of what is at stake in the social and political mobilization to search for the disappeared and the demands for truth, justice, reparations, memory, and non-repetition in the face of state neglect, continuing threats to life and the rupture of the social fabric in Mexico. It shows the strength, the pain, and the power of those who are working to transform these conditions for the whole of Mexican society, beginning at the local level.”

• Chapter 1. Grassroots Mobilization, Theory, and MethodChapter 2. Veracruz: A Case Study of Disappearances and the Grassroots Mobilization of FamiliesChapter 3. Perpetrators, Complicit Actors and Illicit InteractionsChapter 4. Personal Fracture and Family Responses to DisappearancesChapter 5. A Breath of Life: Victim Activists in VeracruzChapter 6. Collective Resistance: Confronting Radical EvilChapter 7. Social and Political Grassroots Mobilization: Types of ResistanceChapter 8. Social Mobilization and the Expansion of Opportunities and SupportChapter 9. Local and Trans-local Transitional Justice Outcomes from Below