“…Finally, I shall use “subversive necropower” to refer to the strategies activists use to reclaim ownership of their dead or disappeared. I label these strategies “necropower” both to compare them to corporate, criminal, and state necropower and to shed light on the way Mexico’s contemporary repertoires of collective action seem to build on a regional history of social movements that memorialized victims in public spaces (Noble, 2015; Rivera Hernández, 2017; Robben, 2007; Sanjurjo, 2017; Tilly, 1995; 2006).…”