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SUMMARY:Politics Gone Missing - Dr Graham Denyer-Willis (POLIS and Queens'
  College\, University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Dr Rachel E. Holmes
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, 25\,000 people ‘go missing’ in the state of S
 ão Paulo\, Brazil. This paper examines the political production and use 
 of ‘missing people’ as a political\, but ostensibly apolitical\, categ
 ory. I trace the rise in disappeared people through the bureaucracies of t
 he state\, the struggles and trauma of families\, in the disinterment and 
 materiality of public and clandestine cemeteries\, and via the ongoing vio
 lence of racialised policing and agentic organised crime. If politics and 
 sovereignty are constituted by life and death as political theory widely h
 olds\, making people ‘go missing’ from politics is a widespread (but d
 ramatically understudied) political technique\, globally\, which takes cap
 italism and inequitably valued life as its ethical flagstaff.
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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