M'charek, Amade (Author)
Schramm, Katharina (Author)
Skinner, David (Author)
Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 39, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 468-487
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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Article Bauer, Susanne (2014) Virtual Geographies of Belonging: The Case of Soviet and Post-Soviet Human Genetic Diversity Research. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 511-537).
Article Widmer, Alexandra (2014) The Imbalanced Sex Ratio and the High Bride Price: Watermarks of Race in Demography, Census, and the Colonial Regulation of Reproduction. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 538-560).
Article Sommer, Marianne (2014) Biology as a Technology of Social Justice in Interwar Britain: Arguments from Evolutionary History, Heredity, and Human Diversity. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 561-586).
Article Wade, Peter (2014) Race, Ethnicity, and Technologies of Belonging. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 587-596).
Article Müller-Wille, Staffan (2014) Race and History: Comments from an Epistemological Point of View. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 597-606).
Article Roque, Ricardo (2014) Race and the Mobility of Humans as Things. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 607-617).
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