RT Article
T1 Forced Disappearances, Indigenous Peoples and Socio-Environmental Conflict in Mexico
JF Victims & offenders
VO 19
IS 7
SP 1276
OP 1300
A1 Quintana-Navarrete, Miguel
A2 Fondevila, Gustavo
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1904843417
AB Criminological research on forced disappearances is scarce despite the prevalence and seriousness of these phenomena and criminology’s growing interest in mass atrocities. By focusing on forced disappearances in Mexico, we argue that the exploitation of the natural resources of indigenous peoples through extractivism and other ecologically harmful enterprises, and these groups’ resistance to such exploitation, generates social conflict and the violent targeting of indigenous activists, resulting in increased disappearances. Consistent with this argument, we find that the proportion of the indigenous population is positively associated with the forced disappearance rate and the presence of conflicts stemming from extractive projects.
K1 Mexico
K1 socio-environmental conflict
K1 Indigenous Peoples
K1 Forced disappearances
DO 10.1080/15564886.2024.2372824