Tijdspraktijken: DNA en de on/onderbroken stad

Rooij, Martine De; M’charek, Amade; Reekum, Rogier van

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“…These studies demonstrate that in 21 st century forensics, race is not simply about biology, but rather is a nature-culture assemblage, involving both biology and social and cultural markers. It is relevant in this context that genetic practices, within and beyond forensics, have been active in generating and coproducing novel imaginaries of belonging, autochthony, descent, and national selves (Fortier, 2011; M’charek et al, 2014; de Rooij et al, 2014; Santos & Maio, 2004; TallBear, 2014; Watt & Kowal, 2019). The complex clusterings and classifications of groups of people, through scientific or social technologies, combined with the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and migration, all have the capacity to feed into the production of race in forensic settings.…”

Section: From Body To Face From Molecular Depth To the Sur/facementioning

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The politics of face and the trouble with race: Exploring relations at the interface between the individual and the collective in forensic practice

M’charek,

van Oorschot

2023

Soc Stud Sci

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This special issue interrogates race through the lens of face. Its central faces are those in forensic settings. Promising immediate legibility and access to the individual suspect, forensic faces nevertheless mobilize a variety of collectives. We offer conceptual and methodological tools to examine the face as both an individual and a collective phenomenon, and demonstrate through detailed cases how the face thus allows us to address the absent presence of race. Given its long and convoluted history in physical anthropology, as a marker of racial typology, the face forces us to reckon with colonial histories of ordering human difference. But the face also allows us to question a regime of visuality that congeals around the face in Western culture. In this introduction to The Politics of Face and the Trouble with Race we elaborate these concerns and introduce the contributions to this volume.

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Section: From Body To Face From Molecular Depth To the Sur/facementioning

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The politics of face and the trouble with race: Exploring relations at the interface between the individual and the collective in forensic practice

M’charek,

van Oorschot

2023

Soc Stud Sci

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Un/Doing Race: On Technology, Individuals, and Collectives in Forensic Practice

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M’charek²

2022

The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology

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Keeping race at bay: familial DNA research, the ‘Turkish Community,’ and the pragmatics of multiple collectives in investigative practice

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M’charek

2021

BioSocieties

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In this contribution, we analyze the recently adjudicated Milica van Doorn rape and murder case. In this case, committed in 1992, no suspect could be identified until investigatory actors employed familial DNA searching in 2017. Crucially, familial DNA typing raised the possibility of ethnic and racial stereotyping and profiling, particularly against the background of the first case in which familial DNA typing was used in the Netherlands: the Marianne Vaatstra case, which from the start had been marred by controversy about the ethnicity of the unknown perpetrator. In our analysis, we show how criminal justice actors managed this potential for racialization through strategically mobilizing and carefully managing multiple collectives. Drawing on the notions of multiplicity and non-coherence, we show we do not only empirically trace the situated ethics and pragmatics of familial DNA research in this specific case, but we also develop a theoretical argument on the multiple and non-coherent character of race itself and its attendant ethical, political, and methodological possibilities and obligations.

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Tijdspraktijken: DNA en de on/onderbroken stad

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The politics of face and the trouble with race: Exploring relations at the interface between the individual and the collective in forensic practice

The politics of face and the trouble with race: Exploring relations at the interface between the individual and the collective in forensic practice

Un/Doing Race: On Technology, Individuals, and Collectives in Forensic Practice

Keeping race at bay: familial DNA research, the ‘Turkish Community,’ and the pragmatics of multiple collectives in investigative practice

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