Monday, October 17, 2016

Topic Exploration- Mothers of Mexico's Disappeared Women

1. The protests in Mexico as a whole are focused on human rights abuses both by drug cartels and Mexican authorities who are often in bed with said cartels. I am focusing only on protests specific to the phenomenon of 'disappeared women', women who are kidnapped and suffer horrific abuses before being killed, often in remote graves where the chances of discovery are slim. Within this protest I am focusing on mothers, because their identity is one that can be distinguished within protests about disappeared women, and serves as a point for rich discussion about the practices and goals of the protests as a whole.

2. Mothers are tied to the disappeared women in a significant way not only by blood ties, but as a faction of protesters that can and has shaped the moral landscape of the protests surrounding disappeared women; they are significant not only to the victims are their living kin and voice, but to Mexican society as the face of the toll disappeared women have on the social fabric of Mexico.

3. The group I'm looking at (mothers) participated in the protest of disappeared women mainly through use of appeal to pathos; one preferred tactic is to march in large numbers while holding pictures of their deceased relatives so as to personalize their grief and stimulate outrage at the inaction of Mexican authorities on their disappearance.

4. I am concerned about gathering enough research material that is relevant to this assignment; while the sources I do have show a strong enough link between the identity of mothers and the protest movement against disappeared women as a whole, I am still apprehensive about how my search for scholarly sources that relate specifically to moral and ethical issues surrounding the mothers' forms of protest and their effect on the movement as a whole may be harder to come by.

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