Adoption
This section brings together critical texts by Olmo Gómez Aldaz on adoption, identicide, abolition of identicide, erasure of origin, institutional violence, documentary destruction of filiation and registry stigma.
It includes the Undoing Adoption line of work, devoted to dismantling adoption as an institution of substitution, erasure of origins, identity violence and documentary destruction of filiation.
The texts published in this section form part of a conceptual and political elaboration on full adoption, closed adoption, identicide, the abolition of adoption and its legal, symbolic and registry effects.
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Line of work
Undoing Adoption functions here as a critical line within the published work: not as a separate folder, but as a conceptual framework for thinking adoption from the harm it produces, not from the narrative that justifies it.
The common axis of these texts is the critique of adoption as a practice of identity substitution, concealment of origin, genealogical rupture, symbolic violence and State administration of filiation.
Publications
The publications are ordered by conceptual continuity: first the concept of identicide, then its abolition, then the defensive violence against abolitionist thought, and finally its colonial and registry developments.
Identicide / Identicidio
Central concept for naming the institutional destruction of natal identity through the legal, documentary and symbolic substitution of origin.
Available on Zenodo:
Spanish · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17457497
English · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17457583
Abolition of Identicide / Abolición del identicidio
Abolitionist framework against the legal, social and documentary practices that erase, substitute or destroy identity of origin.
Available on Zenodo:
Spanish · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17457819
English · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17458107
Aboliphobia / Abolifobia
Neologism proposed to name the symbolic, defensive and institutional violence directed against abolitionist thought on adoption.
Available on Zenodo:
Spanish · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17443569
English · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17443405
Adoption as colonial identicide genocide
Critical text on adoption, coloniality, delocalisation, alienation, indoctrination and the elimination of origins and roots.
Available on Zenodo:
Spanish · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17590564
English · translation pending
The registry stigma of adoption
Analysis of the civil registry as a space of inscription, concealment, legal marking and documentary persistence of adoptive stigma.
Available on Zenodo:
Spanish · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20159685
English · translation pending
Conceptual order
The recommended reading order is: Identicide, Abolition of Identicide, Aboliphobia, Adoption as colonial identicide genocide and The registry stigma of adoption.
This order moves from the central concept to the abolitionist framework, then to the defensive reaction against that critical thought and, finally, to two specific developments: the colonial-biopolitical and the registry-legal dimensions.