Benjamin Nienass Archives - Public Seminar

Activism

Memorials Against Violence in Mexico

A conversation on memory activism for truth and justice

March 25, 2025 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso, Natalia Mendoza and Benjamin Nienass

Since 2006, Mexico has seen more than 300,000 murders and more than 110,000 people disappeared. Faced with a constant increase in violence, activists have turned to a new strategy: collective actions and demands centered around the work of memory. In their new book Las Luchas por la Memoria Contra las ...

Social Research: An International Quarterly (Summer 2016)

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility (ZIMM) is honored to host the launch event of “Borders and the Politics of Mourning” a special issue published by Social Research: An International Quarterly (Summer 2016), with a keynote address by Judith Butler. With more than 15,000 migrants dead and disappeared since 2014, ...