Message posted on 16/10/2019
Goldsmiths Department of Sociology Annual Lecture: Amade M'Charek Thu 24th Oct 4-6
* <br>* <br> <br>*Goldsmiths Department of Sociology Annual Lecture* <br> <br>* <br>* <br> <br>*Thursday, 24th October, 4pm-6pm* <br> <br>Professor Stuart Hall Building LG 02* <br>* <br> <br>*Goldsmiths, University of London <br>* <br> <br> <br>*Amade M’charek (Professor of Anthropology of Science, University of <br>Amsterdam)* <br> <br>* <br>* <br> <br>*Race, Face and Forensic Identification* <br> <br> <br>** <br> <br>The face is evident and intricate. In everyday life the face is <br>ubiquitous. Yet in social theory the face is rather absent. In my <br>lecture I want to move beyond the representational model and attend to <br>the work that a face can /do,/ and to what the face is /capable of/. I <br>introduce the concept of the /tentacular/ to analyze how the face draws <br>certain publics together and how it feeds on that public to assume <br>content and contours. My examples come for the field of forensic <br>genetics, where DNA-phenotyping is used to produce a ‘composite face’ of <br>the unknown individual. I will show that this novel technology is not so <br>much aimed at the /individual suspect/ but at a /suspect population/, <br>clusters of individuals. I argue that this population is racialized <br>through the biologization of the phenotype. <br> <br> <br>This process prompts the question: what is race? To answer this, I <br>suggest that we need to ‘care’ for race, i.e., to invent methods that <br>are open-ended and allow us to follow race around and examine how it <br>shifts and changes in practice. I propose the concept of /generous <br>methods/ to show that the slipperiness of race is not simply a matter of <br>‘multiplicity’; race is not only an ‘object multiple’. As a word and a <br>practice, race is different ontological things altogether. Different <br>realities: race is an object, a tool, and a theory. Three different yet <br>connected realities, contributing to its slipperiness as well as its <br>virulent nature. <br> <br>-- <br>---------------------------------- <br> <br>Michael Guggenheim <br>17 Popham Street <br>N1 8QW London <br>UK <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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