J Hartigan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 11508 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Hartigan |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Hartigan |
| FIRMA | HARTIGAN J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8491-8430 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 346 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Improving Care for People Aging with HIV
Playing with the Bull
Turupukllayis a popular form of bullfighting in Peru that unfolds over several days. Social analysis ofturupukllayhas largely focused on the symbolic dimension of its most sensational form,Yawar Fiesta, in which a condor is affixed to the back of the bull. But regarding these animals merely as symbols results in a limited sense of 'play,' particularly given howturupukllayencompasses the bull as a life-form. Based on fieldwork in Andagua, Peru, we…
Knowing Animals
Multispecies ethnographic projects are venturing "beyond the human" (Kohn 2013), but how far can they go and remain anthropological? The answer depends on whether such projects align with the surge of ethological research on animal cultures. Based on my fieldwork on wild horses in Galicia, Spain, I make a case for an ethologically informed ethnography that extends cultural analysis to other social species. In this project, I used ethological tech…
Shaving the Beasts
Plants as ethnographic subjects
Plants can be intriguing, challenging ethnographic subjects. Plants are communicative, agential and social. Engaging them ethnographically possibly expands the scope and relevance of ethnographic methods and theorizing. The phenotypic plasticity of plants makes them strikingly attuned to ethnographic concerns with place and its constitutions; they also actively constitute place through niche construction. There are various intellectual resources …
Facing Up to Neanderthals
I open by thanking Terence Keel both for inviting me to participate in this dialogue and for so effectively framing two distinct stances on how to understand the role of race in human genetics research today. This discussion is important to critical assessments of racial thinking—its depth and breadth in contemporary societies—but also to encouraging a correct understanding of genes and risk factors related to disease more broadly. For the sake o…
Care of the Species
Care of the Species contributes to debates about the concept of species through vivid ethnography, examining infrastructures of care—labs and gardens in Spain and Mexico—where plant scientists grapple with the complexities of evolution and domestication. In tackling the racial dimension of efforts to go “beyond the human,” this book reveals a far greater stratum of sameness than commonly assumed
Plant Publics
This article examines the place of botanical gardens in the public sphere, historically and currently, analyzing the variety of cultural dynamics shaping these locales. Botanical gardens are complex cultural sites where multispecies relations are cultivated and managed. These sites typically combine scientific inquiry with conservation efforts and public attractions. Botanical gardens in Spain offer a distinctive perspective on these locations be…
Whiteness, class and the legacies of empire
Katherine Tyler explores the dynamics of forgetting and remembering by which post-colonial forms of whiteness are constituted in England today. Based on more than two years of ethnographic research
Translating “Race” and “Raza” between the U nited S tates and M exico
Mexican Genomics and the Roots of Racial Thinking
This article confronts the cultural limitation of critical race work in the United States by examining genomic practices at two national institutes in Mexico-one focused on people and aimed at sampling "the Mexican genome," the other focused on plant biodiversity and "razas de maíz" or races of corn. The human genome project emphasizes admixture in ways that seem to confound claims about the racialization of genomics research in the United States…
Biologies of Race
The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race
Book Review| January 01 2010 The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity. By Bruce Baum. New York: New York University Press, 2006. x + 342 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $45 (cloth). John Hartigan John Hartigan University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American E…
What Are You Laughing At? Assessing the “Racial” in U.S. Public Discourse
This paper analyzes some of the cultural dynamics that shape the significance of race in the United States. The focus is on the role of social conventions governing speech and the operation of categorical identities, such as “individual” and “group.” These cultural dynamics are examined via moments of humor—some that are received poorly and others that are successful—because jokes both condense and engage deep reservoirs of implicit cultural know…
Is Race Still Socially Constructed? The Recent Controversy over Race and Medical Genetics
Current controversies in the field of genetics are provoking a reassessment of claims that race is socially constructed. Drawing upon Bruno Latour's model of how to analyse scientific controversy, this article argues that race is ‘gaining in reality’ in such a way that renders claims about its social construction tenuous and uncertain. Such claims can be seen as failing in two key regards. The first relates to changes in the way genetics is pract…
Saying "Socially Constructed" Is Not Enough
The End of Social Construction
These are challenging times for people who think critically about race. The intellectual edifice upon which many scholarly interventions against racist thought and practice have developed over the last few decades is in the process of crumbling. The simple but profound assertion that race is socially constructed is being assailed in a variety of intellectual forums and may soon become untenable as a basis for effectively countering widespread rac…
Odd Tribes
Culture against Race
Research Article| July 01 2005 Culture against Race: Reworking the Basis for Racial Analysis John Hartigan, Jr. John Hartigan, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2005) 104 (3): 543–560. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-104-3-543 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John Hartigan; Culture against Race: Reworking the Basis for Racial A…
“White Devils” Talk Back
Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit
The Future of Us All
The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New YorkCity. Roger Sanjek. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. ix. 465 pp., figures, photographs, notes, references, index
Racial Situations
Racial Situations
Remembering White Detroit
Detroit provides a unique perspective on issues of whiteness because it grounds many situations where whites are racially objectified-in settings where the nor-motive status of their racial position cannot be assumed, and where whiteness is not often an unmarked identity. The distinct class texture of their objectifications are evident in comments by white Detroiters grappling with the city's history, either through their personal memories or the…
Establishing the Fact of Whiteness
Surveying public discourses on race, one suspects that anthropologists and academics are struggling to keep pace with the innovations and obsessions this subject generates in popular culture. But academic discussions of whiteness and the way it operates may provide a means of altering the terms of racial debates. As an analytical object, whiteness is being established as a powerful means of critiquing the reproduction and maintenance of systems o…
Odd Tribes
Knowing Animals
Multispecies ethnographic projects are venturing "beyond the human" (Kohn 2013), but how far can they go and remain anthropological? The answer depends on whether such projects align with the surge of ethological research on animal cultures. Based on my fieldwork on wild horses in Galicia, Spain, I make a case for an ethologically informed ethnography that extends cultural analysis to other social species. In this project, I used ethological tech…
Is Race Still Socially Constructed? The Recent Controversy over Race and Medical Genetics
Current controversies in the field of genetics are provoking a reassessment of claims that race is socially constructed. Drawing upon Bruno Latour's model of how to analyse scientific controversy, this article argues that race is ‘gaining in reality’ in such a way that renders claims about its social construction tenuous and uncertain. Such claims can be seen as failing in two key regards. The first relates to changes in the way genetics is pract…
Plant Publics
This article examines the place of botanical gardens in the public sphere, historically and currently, analyzing the variety of cultural dynamics shaping these locales. Botanical gardens are complex cultural sites where multispecies relations are cultivated and managed. These sites typically combine scientific inquiry with conservation efforts and public attractions. Botanical gardens in Spain offer a distinctive perspective on these locations be…
Mexican Genomics and the Roots of Racial Thinking
This article confronts the cultural limitation of critical race work in the United States by examining genomic practices at two national institutes in Mexico-one focused on people and aimed at sampling "the Mexican genome," the other focused on plant biodiversity and "razas de maíz" or races of corn. The human genome project emphasizes admixture in ways that seem to confound claims about the racialization of genomics research in the United States…
Unpopular culture
This article examines 'white trash' as a rhetorical identity in a discourse of difference that white Americans deploy in deciding what will count as whiteness in relation to the 'social bottom'. Surveying historiographic efforts to valorize 'poor whites' in contrast to 'white trash', and tracking the redemption of 'redneck' as a popular identity, the author delineates how a pollution ideology maintains a portion of whites as fitting problematical…
Care of the Species
Care of the Species contributes to debates about the concept of species through vivid ethnography, examining infrastructures of care—labs and gardens in Spain and Mexico—where plant scientists grapple with the complexities of evolution and domestication. In tackling the racial dimension of efforts to go “beyond the human,” this book reveals a far greater stratum of sameness than commonly assumed
Plants as ethnographic subjects
Plants can be intriguing, challenging ethnographic subjects. Plants are communicative, agential and social. Engaging them ethnographically possibly expands the scope and relevance of ethnographic methods and theorizing. The phenotypic plasticity of plants makes them strikingly attuned to ethnographic concerns with place and its constitutions; they also actively constitute place through niche construction. There are various intellectual resources …
Racial Situations
Remembering White Detroit
Detroit provides a unique perspective on issues of whiteness because it grounds many situations where whites are racially objectified-in settings where the nor-motive status of their racial position cannot be assumed, and where whiteness is not often an unmarked identity. The distinct class texture of their objectifications are evident in comments by white Detroiters grappling with the city's history, either through their personal memories or the…
Object lessons in whiteness
This paper examines the convergence of antiracist politics and theorizing with the emergent ethnographic attention to cultural constructions of whiteness. The methodological, conceptual, and political crossing points between antiracist scholarship and cultural anthropologists’ burgeoning interest in the construction of white racial identity raise a host of provocative issues about the political stakes involved in studying whiteness. Drawing on my…
What Are You Laughing At? Assessing the “Racial” in U.S. Public Discourse
This paper analyzes some of the cultural dynamics that shape the significance of race in the United States. The focus is on the role of social conventions governing speech and the operation of categorical identities, such as “individual” and “group.” These cultural dynamics are examined via moments of humor—some that are received poorly and others that are successful—because jokes both condense and engage deep reservoirs of implicit cultural know…
Reading Trash
Playing with the Bull
Turupukllayis a popular form of bullfighting in Peru that unfolds over several days. Social analysis ofturupukllayhas largely focused on the symbolic dimension of its most sensational form,Yawar Fiesta, in which a condor is affixed to the back of the bull. But regarding these animals merely as symbols results in a limited sense of 'play,' particularly given howturupukllayencompasses the bull as a life-form. Based on fieldwork in Andagua, Peru, we…
Culture against Race
Research Article| July 01 2005 Culture against Race: Reworking the Basis for Racial Analysis John Hartigan, Jr. John Hartigan, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2005) 104 (3): 543–560. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-104-3-543 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John Hartigan; Culture against Race: Reworking the Basis for Racial A…
Whiteness in the field
Saying "Socially Constructed" Is Not Enough
Reading Trash
Locating White Detroit
Complicating Whiteness
Establishing the Fact of Whiteness
Surveying public discourses on race, one suspects that anthropologists and academics are struggling to keep pace with the innovations and obsessions this subject generates in popular culture. But academic discussions of whiteness and the way it operates may provide a means of altering the terms of racial debates. As an analytical object, whiteness is being established as a powerful means of critiquing the reproduction and maintenance of systems o…
Unpopular culture
This article examines 'white trash' as a rhetorical identity in a discourse of difference that white Americans deploy in deciding what will count as whiteness in relation to the 'social bottom'. Surveying historiographic efforts to valorize 'poor whites' in contrast to 'white trash', and tracking the redemption of 'redneck' as a popular identity, the author delineates how a pollution ideology maintains a portion of whites as fitting problematical…
Racial Situations
Racial Situations
Remembering White Detroit
Detroit provides a unique perspective on issues of whiteness because it grounds many situations where whites are racially objectified-in settings where the nor-motive status of their racial position cannot be assumed, and where whiteness is not often an unmarked identity. The distinct class texture of their objectifications are evident in comments by white Detroiters grappling with the city's history, either through their personal memories or the…
Object lessons in whiteness
This paper examines the convergence of antiracist politics and theorizing with the emergent ethnographic attention to cultural constructions of whiteness. The methodological, conceptual, and political crossing points between antiracist scholarship and cultural anthropologists’ burgeoning interest in the construction of white racial identity raise a host of provocative issues about the political stakes involved in studying whiteness. Drawing on my…
Whiteness in the field
“White Devils” Talk Back
Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit
The Future of Us All
The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New YorkCity. Roger Sanjek. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. ix. 465 pp., figures, photographs, notes, references, index
The End of Social Construction
These are challenging times for people who think critically about race. The intellectual edifice upon which many scholarly interventions against racist thought and practice have developed over the last few decades is in the process of crumbling. The simple but profound assertion that race is socially constructed is being assailed in a variety of intellectual forums and may soon become untenable as a basis for effectively countering widespread rac…
Odd Tribes
Culture against Race
Research Article| July 01 2005 Culture against Race: Reworking the Basis for Racial Analysis John Hartigan, Jr. John Hartigan, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2005) 104 (3): 543–560. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-104-3-543 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John Hartigan; Culture against Race: Reworking the Basis for Racial A…
Saying "Socially Constructed" Is Not Enough
Is Race Still Socially Constructed? The Recent Controversy over Race and Medical Genetics
Current controversies in the field of genetics are provoking a reassessment of claims that race is socially constructed. Drawing upon Bruno Latour's model of how to analyse scientific controversy, this article argues that race is ‘gaining in reality’ in such a way that renders claims about its social construction tenuous and uncertain. Such claims can be seen as failing in two key regards. The first relates to changes in the way genetics is pract…
What Are You Laughing At? Assessing the “Racial” in U.S. Public Discourse
This paper analyzes some of the cultural dynamics that shape the significance of race in the United States. The focus is on the role of social conventions governing speech and the operation of categorical identities, such as “individual” and “group.” These cultural dynamics are examined via moments of humor—some that are received poorly and others that are successful—because jokes both condense and engage deep reservoirs of implicit cultural know…
The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race
Book Review| January 01 2010 The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity. By Bruce Baum. New York: New York University Press, 2006. x + 342 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $45 (cloth). John Hartigan John Hartigan University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American E…
Biologies of Race
Translating “Race” and “Raza” between the U nited S tates and M exico
Mexican Genomics and the Roots of Racial Thinking
This article confronts the cultural limitation of critical race work in the United States by examining genomic practices at two national institutes in Mexico-one focused on people and aimed at sampling "the Mexican genome," the other focused on plant biodiversity and "razas de maíz" or races of corn. The human genome project emphasizes admixture in ways that seem to confound claims about the racialization of genomics research in the United States…
Whiteness, class and the legacies of empire
Katherine Tyler explores the dynamics of forgetting and remembering by which post-colonial forms of whiteness are constituted in England today. Based on more than two years of ethnographic research
Plant Publics
This article examines the place of botanical gardens in the public sphere, historically and currently, analyzing the variety of cultural dynamics shaping these locales. Botanical gardens are complex cultural sites where multispecies relations are cultivated and managed. These sites typically combine scientific inquiry with conservation efforts and public attractions. Botanical gardens in Spain offer a distinctive perspective on these locations be…
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