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Podcast: Transforming Society podcast
Episode: Why disappearance research matters
Description: Tens of thousands of individuals are affected by disappearance and enforced disappearance every year, but until now the study of this phenomenon has often been disjointed and disconnected due to academic silos.In this podcast, Richard Kemp speaks with Bahar Baser and Élise Féron, two of the co-editors for the new Journal of Disappearance Studies, about how the journal serves as a space to break these boundaries and give this important field a unified platform.They discuss the difference between disappearance and enforced disappearance, the ethical implications of speaking for those who cannot speak fo...