Objetivo This ethnographic project on race in forensic practice aims to study how technologies of identification shape race. The focus is on ‘face-making’ in forensic identification; i.e. the reconstruction of faces of unknown persons, a practice entwined with ‘race-making’.In five subprojects the study investigates: How technologies of facial identification in and outside laboratories enact race (subprojects 1-3); How versions of race change as knowledge moves across sites (subproject 4); The mechanism through which race becomes an absent present object, i.e. an object that appears to the surface, e.g. in discourse, to then go underground to hide in the routines and technologies of science, e.g. in genetic markers (subproject 5).The overall objective of this interdisciplinary project is to develop theoretical concepts and methods to grasp the absent present object race. The project goes beyond the social constructivist paradigm, by taking the biological into account. It attends to the materiality of race, i.e. the ways race is shaped as a set of relations between the biological, the social and the technical.This project is innovative in several ways. It is the first to comprehensively study race and forensics, a highly relevant field where knowledge circulates constantly between science and society. The ethnographic subprojects are innovative in the way they compare frontier science of genetics to every day practices, such as facial composite drawings and skull-based reconstructions. Because of its focus on race-in-practice, this project will make a major contribution to the social sciences by providing tools to theorize the materiality of race. Finally, this innovative project comprises a multi-sited ethnography that follows routes of knowledge into and out of the laboratory to various sites in society. Ámbito científico natural sciencesbiological sciencesgeneticssocial sciences Programa(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Tema(s) ERC-CG-2013-SH2 - ERC Consolidator Grant - Institutions, Values, Beliefs and behaviour Convocatoria de propuestas ERC-2013-CoG Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoria Régimen de financiación ERC-CG - ERC Consolidator Grants Institución de acogida UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM Aportación de la UE € 1 999 935,00 Dirección SPUI 21 1012WX Amsterdam Países Bajos Ver en el mapa Región West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Investigador principal Aouatef Amade M'charek (Dr.) Contacto administrativo Aouatef Amade M'charek (Dr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos Beneficiarios (1) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM Países Bajos Aportación de la UE € 1 999 935,00 Dirección SPUI 21 1012WX Amsterdam Ver en el mapa Región West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Investigador principal Aouatef Amade M'charek (Dr.) Contacto administrativo Aouatef Amade M'charek (Dr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos
