Overview
- Teasing out questions concerning the role of forensic science in humanitarian work, human rights advocacy, and transnational activism
- Describing migration processes in terms of “vertical borders” producing myriad and intersecting forms of physical and economic vulnerability.
- Brings to light the little-discussed reality that forensic scientists, like the migrants they seek to identify, perceive and interpret, operate within, and mediate sociopolitical processes of the state
Part of the book series: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory (BST)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Beyond Local Jurisdictions: Science in a Global Web of Relations
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Producing and Situating Forensic Science Knowledge
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About this book
Through examination of how forensic scientists define, navigate, and enact their work at the frontiers of US policy and economics, this book joins a robust body of literature dedicated to bridging social theory with bioarchaeological applications to modern day problems.
This volume is based on deeply and critically reflective analyses, submitted by individual scholars, wherein they navigate and position themselves as social actors embeddedwithin and, perhaps partially constituted by, relations of power, cultural ideologies, and the social structures characterizing this moment in history.
Each contribution addresses a different variation on themes of power relations, production of knowledge, and reflexivity in practice. In sum, however, the chapters of this book trace relationships between institutions, entities, and individuals comprising the landscapes of migrant death and repatriation and considers their articulation with sociopolitical dynamics of the neoliberal state.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Alyson O’Daniel is is an Assistant Professor of Medical and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Indianapolis in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her scholarship and teaching explore intersections of state power, policy, and practice, social and bodily vulnerability, and health care inequality in United States. She has worked for fourteen years on discerning racial, class, and gendered dimensions of HIV-related health inequalities, and the relationships between federal public health care policy and the structure and content of local initiatives for the health care and support of HIV-positive women. During this time, she has conducted extensive ethnographic research among HIV-positive women and their service providers in Denver, Colorado, “Midway,” North Carolina, and Indianapolis, Indiana. Her HIV/AIDS related work has been published in journalssuch as Medical Anthropology, Human Organization, and Transforming Anthropology. Her recent book-length ethnography, Holding On: African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS, was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2016. More recently, Dr. O’Daniel’s research program has expanded to include examining response to the migrant death crisis in South Texas. In partnership with the humanitarian forensic science team from the University of Indianapolis, the project explores volunteer forensic science as a crucial, yet politically-fraught part of the human migration story.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sociopolitics of Migrant Death and Repatriation
Book Subtitle: Perspectives from Forensic Science
Editors: Krista E. Latham, Alyson J. O'Daniel
Series Title: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61866-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61865-4Published: 11 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87180-6Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61866-1Published: 03 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2567-6776
Series E-ISSN: 2567-6814
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 177
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Forensic Science