Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico's Disappeared

Join Janice Gallagher, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark as we discuss her new book “Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico's Disappeared” (2023, Oxford University Press). How do people battle impunity in places where grave rights violations are normalized and the judicial system provides scant recourse? In this talk, Janice Gallagher connects individual processes of transformation through claim-making and mobilization to collective and systemic outcomes, showing the surprising ways in which victims of rights abuses substantively erode impunity. Sponsored by the Sociology Department and Dean of Faculty.