Article ID: CBB001421200

Topologies of Race: Doing Territory, Population and Identity in Europe (2014)

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M'charek, Amade (Author)
Schramm, Katharina (Author)
Skinner, David (Author)


Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 39, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 468-487


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: First article in a special issue, “Technologies of Belonging”
Language: English

Territorial borders just like other boundaries are involved in a politics of belonging, a politics of us and them. Border management regimes are thus part of processes of othering. In this article, we use the management of borders and populations in Europe as an empirical example to make a theoretical claim about race. We introduce the notion of the phenotypic other to argue that race is a topological object, an object that is spatially and temporally folded in distributed technologies of governance. To elaborate on these notions, we first examine a number of border management technologies through which both race and Europe are brought into being. More specifically we focus on how various such technologies aimed at monitoring the movement of individuals together with the management of populations have come to play crucial roles in Europe. Different border management regimes, we argue, do not only enact different versions of Europe but also different phenotypic others. We then shift the focus from border regimes to internal practices of governance, examining forensic DNA databanks to unravel articulations of race in the traffic between databases and societies.

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Authors & Contributors
TallBear, Kimberly
Rajagopalan, Ramya
Nelson, Alondra
Fujimura, Joan H.
Barbujani, Guido
Silva, Susana
Concepts
DNA; RNA
Human genetics
Science and race
Forensic sciences
Genomics
Authority of science
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Hawaii (U.S.)
South Africa
Portugal
Latin America
Europe
Institutions
Human Genome Project
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