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India as database: Response to Reetika Khera
In: Contributions to Indian sociology, Band 53, Heft 2, S. 328-340
ISSN: 0973-0648
If sociology is 'missing' from the Aadhaar debate, to take Reetika Khera's provocation seriously, the absence may reflect a disciplinary reluctance to accede to normative terms of contest in which the biometric identity platform must be rendered as boon or blight. Though a refusal of such normative formulations may be necessary, it carries its own ethical limit. Beyond the question of normative assessment, Aadhaar raises multiple additional questions. Several are noted here, questions on Aadhaar as regime of de-duplication; on database as emergent social imaginary; on the immateriality of Aadhaar; and on the collapse of welfare, wage, credit and product into 'service' as the emergent form of value.
Creativity and exhaustion
In: BioSocieties: an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 268-270
ISSN: 1745-8560
Given over to demand: excorporation as commitment
In: Contemporary South Asia, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 318-332
ISSN: 1469-364X
Migrant Supplementarity: Remaking Biological Relatedness in Chinese Military and Indian Five-Star Hospitals
In: Body & society, Band 17, Heft 2-3, S. 31-541
ISSN: 1460-3632
Social analysis of transplant organ demand often focuses on either small-scale (familial) tyrannies of the gift or large-scale (global) markets. Media accounts of the scandalous in transplant medicine stress the latter, a homogeneous model of flows of biovalue down gradients of economic and social capital. This article examines particular globalizations of tissue demand organized as much around claims of social similarity as gradients of social difference. To engage apparent 'diasporic' networks of organ purchase — Non-Resident Indians traveling to India and Overseas Chinese to China — I elaborate a concept of bodily supplementarity. Supplementarity in this account is the ability of an individual or population to secure longevity through the mobilization or acquisition of the organic form of others. Diasporic tissue circuits are analyzed in the context of 'experiments' in supplementarity that proliferate with the transformation of the molecular conditions for supplementarity. The emergence of powerful immunosuppressants renders the scale of tissue recruitment flexible and contingent, and allows clinics to develop alternatives to brain death. These circuits emerge as situations that reorder the relation of the familial and the global in transplantation, in the service not only of migrant supplementarity but also efforts to reimagine the challenges of emigrant belonging within particular configurations of racialized life and its government.
Accusations of Illiteracy and the Medicine of the Organ
In: Social research: an international quarterly, Band 78, Heft 1, S. 123-142
ISSN: 0037-783X
FEATURES: a Lagos diary: dying request for a kosher burial in this true story, an FS couple respond to a friend's dying wish to be buried as a Jew - in Nigeria
In: Foreign service journal, Band 85, Heft 6, S. 51-56
ISSN: 0146-3543
Metaphor and Alienation
In: Anthropological quarterly: AQ, Band 76, Heft 2, S. 343-350
ISSN: 1534-1518
Senility And Irony's Age
In: Social analysis: journal of cultural and social practice, Band 47, Heft 2
ISSN: 1558-5727
The Other Kidney: Biopolitics Beyond Recognition
In: Body & society, Band 7, Heft 2-3, S. 9-29
ISSN: 1460-3632
This article links ethnographic exploration of commodified renal transactions in India to their articulation in Hindi film as practices re-animating kinship in the face of the death or diminishment of the father. To think through the work such organ stories do, I contrast the `transplant film' with the `transfusion film'. I argue transfusion narratives offer a liberal developmentalist recoding of social relations under the sign of a Nehruvian project of national recognition, while transplant narratives abandon the project of development for an imaginated return to tradition. To understand the stakes in this shift, I trace the genealogy of modern transplant medicine through the relationship between recognition and suppression and through the return of the surgical as a metonym for care.
Holi in Banaras and the Mahaland of Modernity
In: GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies, Band 2, Heft 4, S. 399-424
ISSN: 1527-9375
Old Age: Cultural and Critical Perspectives
In: Annual review of anthropology, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 137-158
ISSN: 1545-4290
Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception
In: Global Assemblages, S. 79-90
The Cynic's Guide to Human Nature and Crime Control: Why It Hardly Matters Which Theory You Use as a Basis for Holistic Crime Policy
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 23-25
ISSN: 1471-5457