Malin S Wilckens
Biographic Data
| ID | 212743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malin S Wilckens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malin S |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilckens |
| SIGNATURE | WILCKENS M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Geschichtswissenschaft Universität Bielefeld Universitätsstraße 25 D-33615 Bielefeld Deutschland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1368-4520 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Calcified identities
Essentialist assumptions about human beings persist in scientific practice, despite their erroneous logic. This article examines essentialism related to research on, and handling of, academic collections of human remains. Historically human remains, and skulls in particular, have served to produce various forms of scientific racialization and racism, confining people to fixed notions of identities and legitimizing violent systems of exploitation …
Wert und Verwendung menschlicher Überreste
Human remains are endowed with a diversity of meanings and values in various contexts. Their metaphysical status can change, from that of a subject to an ‚object‘ and vice versa. They can be seen as valuable scientific specimen, as objects of exchange or as ‚negative capital‘ and the embodiment of the horrors of a violent colonial past. Such value ascriptions are often in conflict epistemically and ideologically, relating to contrasting socio-pol…
Calcified identities
Essentialist assumptions about human beings persist in scientific practice, despite their erroneous logic. This article examines essentialism related to research on, and handling of, academic collections of human remains. Historically human remains, and skulls in particular, have served to produce various forms of scientific racialization and racism, confining people to fixed notions of identities and legitimizing violent systems of exploitation …
Wert und Verwendung menschlicher Überreste
Human remains are endowed with a diversity of meanings and values in various contexts. Their metaphysical status can change, from that of a subject to an ‚object‘ and vice versa. They can be seen as valuable scientific specimen, as objects of exchange or as ‚negative capital‘ and the embodiment of the horrors of a violent colonial past. Such value ascriptions are often in conflict epistemically and ideologically, relating to contrasting socio-pol…
Calcified identities
Essentialist assumptions about human beings persist in scientific practice, despite their erroneous logic. This article examines essentialism related to research on, and handling of, academic collections of human remains. Historically human remains, and skulls in particular, have served to produce various forms of scientific racialization and racism, confining people to fixed notions of identities and legitimizing violent systems of exploitation …
Epistemology (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (1 works)