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Digging for Hope: A Feminist Ethnography in the Land of Mass Graves

by R. Aída Hernández Castillo
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780816556496
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Arizona Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Arizona Press
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  • Pages: 360
  • Original Price: USD 100.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 713 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Activism & Social Justice

In the shadow of Mexico's ongoing human rights crisis, Digging for Hope offers a powerful feminist ethnography of resistance, care, and collective memory. Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, R. A�da Hern�ndez Castillo documents the courageous work of women-led search collectives who, in the face of extreme violence, search for their disappeared loved ones.

Through physical and spiritual practices such as exhumation, mourning, and poetic remembrance, these women reclaim dignity for the dead and challenge a society that has normalized disappearance. At the heart of this book is a profound exploration of what Hern�ndez Castillo calls a "pedagogy of love"--a political and ethical framework rooted in care, solidarity, and the refusal to forget. These women are not only searching for bodies; they are building emotional communities, crafting new languages of justice, and offering a reimagining of what it means to resist violence. Their practices, often overlooked by traditional scholarship, restore humanity and dignify the disappeared.

Digging for Hope is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the gendered dimensions of violence and the grassroots movements that rise in response. With clarity and compassion, Hern�ndez Castillo brings readers into the intimate spaces of grief and resistance, offering a model for feminist ethnography that is both rigorous and deeply humane.

R. Aída Hernández Castillo is a professor and senior researcher at the CIESAS in Mexico City. Her academic work has promoted Indigenous and women's rights in Latin America. She has published twenty-two books.

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