Alexa Hagerty
Biographic Data
| ID | 619127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexa Hagerty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexa |
| FAMILY NAME | Hagerty |
| SIGNATURE | HAGERTY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge Cambridge UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Predictive puericulture in Argentina
In April 2018, as the Argentine Congress debated decriminalizing abortion, local media revealed that public-health officials in a northern province had deployed an algorithmic system to predict teenage pregnancy. Public response to the technology quickly became entangled in society-wide debates about reproductive rights. Both proponents and detractors of the algorithmic system framed the technology as novel and cutting-edge. However, this paper a…
The Melancholy of Bones
Since the early 1990s, forensic exhumation of mass graves in the wake of violent conflict has become an increasingly important humanitarian intervention. Exhumation has two stated aims: to document evidence of atrocity for judicial proceedings and to return bodies to families to bring psychological closure. Exhumation is premised on the idea that opening graves bring mourners' closure, but little research has been done to examine how humanitarian…
Mourning Remains
Reviewed by: Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru’s Postwar Andes by Isaias Rojas-Perez Alexa Hagerty Isaias Rojas-Perez, Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru’s Postwar Andes. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. 344 pp. In this thoughtful and cogently argued book, Isaias Rojas-Perez examines the forensic exhumation of mass graves in search of th…
Speak softly to the dead
Home funerals are a small social movement in which American families care for their dead at home. This article argues that home funerals offer a generative view of the tension between the body as biological and social construction, matter and meaning, object and subject. In home funerals, the dead body is enacted as possessing a fading spark of agency and subjectivity, animating the dead against the grain of medical and scientific conceptions of …
Réenchanter la mort
Dans le mouvement populaire nord-américain des « funérailles à domicile », le mort est veillé à la maison par ses amis et sa famille, au lieu d'être pris en charge par une entreprise de pompes funèbres. Cette pratique met en évidence les tensions fécondes - entre biologie et construction sociale, matière et sens, objet et sujet - dont le corps mort est le lieu. Investi d'un reste de volonté et de subjectivité, d'une étincelle de vie qui s'éteint,…
The Melancholy of Bones
Since the early 1990s, forensic exhumation of mass graves in the wake of violent conflict has become an increasingly important humanitarian intervention. Exhumation has two stated aims: to document evidence of atrocity for judicial proceedings and to return bodies to families to bring psychological closure. Exhumation is premised on the idea that opening graves bring mourners' closure, but little research has been done to examine how humanitarian…
Speak softly to the dead
Home funerals are a small social movement in which American families care for their dead at home. This article argues that home funerals offer a generative view of the tension between the body as biological and social construction, matter and meaning, object and subject. In home funerals, the dead body is enacted as possessing a fading spark of agency and subjectivity, animating the dead against the grain of medical and scientific conceptions of …
Réenchanter la mort
Dans le mouvement populaire nord-américain des « funérailles à domicile », le mort est veillé à la maison par ses amis et sa famille, au lieu d'être pris en charge par une entreprise de pompes funèbres. Cette pratique met en évidence les tensions fécondes - entre biologie et construction sociale, matière et sens, objet et sujet - dont le corps mort est le lieu. Investi d'un reste de volonté et de subjectivité, d'une étincelle de vie qui s'éteint,…
Mourning Remains
Reviewed by: Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru’s Postwar Andes by Isaias Rojas-Perez Alexa Hagerty Isaias Rojas-Perez, Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru’s Postwar Andes. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. 344 pp. In this thoughtful and cogently argued book, Isaias Rojas-Perez examines the forensic exhumation of mass graves in search of th…
The Melancholy of Bones
Since the early 1990s, forensic exhumation of mass graves in the wake of violent conflict has become an increasingly important humanitarian intervention. Exhumation has two stated aims: to document evidence of atrocity for judicial proceedings and to return bodies to families to bring psychological closure. Exhumation is premised on the idea that opening graves bring mourners' closure, but little research has been done to examine how humanitarian…
Predictive puericulture in Argentina
In April 2018, as the Argentine Congress debated decriminalizing abortion, local media revealed that public-health officials in a northern province had deployed an algorithmic system to predict teenage pregnancy. Public response to the technology quickly became entangled in society-wide debates about reproductive rights. Both proponents and detractors of the algorithmic system framed the technology as novel and cutting-edge. However, this paper a…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 works) · History (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Abortion (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work)