Writing in accessible language without giving in on the complexities of violence and crime for the people who are (in)directly involved in these practices is Eva’s ultimate goal. The aim of writing fiction is also part of her wish to engage with wider audiences. You can find a full list of publications on Research Gate.
How do victims and perpetrators of political violence caught up in a complicated legal battle experience justice on their own terms? Phenomenal Justice is a compelling ethnography about the reopened trials for crimes against humanity committed during the brutal military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983.
The monograph Phenomenal Justice. Violence and Morality in Argentina received the international award Outstanding Academic Title 2020 and was shortlisted for the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America.
Argentinian peacekeepers and moral becoming in Cyprus
van Roekel, E. 2022. In: Critical Military Studies.
Economias inflamables en tiempos de COVID-19: la reventa de gasolina en la frontera Venezuela-Brasil
Morillo Ramos, M. & van Roekel, E. 2022. In: Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.
On the dangers of empathy with the military in Argentina
van Roekel, E. 2021. In: Ethnos.
Fiction is a imaginative practice in which Eva explores alternative ways of conveying the affective and the magical that arise from ethnographic encounters and personal memories while living in Latin America. The Watermelon and Cherry Blossoms and Grilled Lamb are short stories about the different ways of mourning in Venezuela and Argentina. She is currently working on a short story titled Blue Morpho about a Venezuelan woman who is trapped in the South of Venezuela where grief, gold, and blue butterflies rule.