Asale Angel‐ajani
Biographic Data
| ID | 99498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asale Angel‐ajani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asale |
| FAMILY NAME | Angel‐ajani |
| SIGNATURE | AJANI A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Witnessing: Virtual Conversations
This special feature presents curated excerpts from two virtual conversations that the editors (Liana Chua and Omri Grinberg) held with anthropologist and author Asale Angel-Ajani, historian Carolyn J. Dean and anthropologist and filmmaker Meg McLagan on the theme of witnessing. Beginning with the participants' reflexive discussions of how they came to work on witnessing, the conversations delve into several intertwined questions and debates. The…
Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism
Anthropology has long been associated with an ethos of engagement. The field's core methods and practices involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and their study participants, giving major research topics in the field a distinctively human face. The fact that these interactions frequently cross social parameters, including class, race, ethnicity, and gender, raises important questions. Can research findings be authentic and ob…
Expert Witness: Notes toward Revisiting the Politics of Listening
Through an exploration of what it means to conduct fieldwork in a large European prison, this article explores both the promises and the limitations of the form of anthropological engagement some have called “witnessing.” I call attention to the ways anthropological witnessing is written about within the discipline and argue that the notion of “witnessing” is largely an attempt to establish the authority of the ethnographer, without ever having t…
Out of Chaos
A Question of Dangerous Races
Europe has moved toward more repressive immigration laws and enforcement measures. In this article I argue that the intensifying policing of national borders has created state-sanctioned practices of targeting particular immigrant groups, based on race, gender and national origin. I examine the discourse of criminality, particularly notions of immigrant criminality that shapes the lives of documented and undocumented immigrants in Italy. I demons…
Carving out Peaceful Tomorrows
Diasporic Conditions: Mapping the Discourses of Race and Criminality in Italy
Through a discussion of "diasporic conditions" this article examines the conditions of possibility of discursive formations of an African criminal-other that has a long and silent history in the African Diaspora. 1 explore how race, gender, and national origin figure into the ways the Italian state and its citizens construct African immigrant women as criminals. I map the significance of race and gender as it is grounded in criminological debates…
Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities
Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities. Jean Muteba Rahier ed. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. ix. 264 pp., figures, photographs, bibliography, index
Italy's Racial Cauldron: Immigration, Criminalization and the Cultural Politics of Race
This article explores how race and racism shape Italian state practices and policies, and how these policies shape popular opinion on immigration. It is concerned with the ways in which African immigrants to Italy, as racially marked subjects, are affected by the discourses of race and criminalization. Rather than discuss immigrants in Italy's social landscape generally, this article focuses attention on immigration policies and forms of racism a…
A Question of Dangerous Races
Europe has moved toward more repressive immigration laws and enforcement measures. In this article I argue that the intensifying policing of national borders has created state-sanctioned practices of targeting particular immigrant groups, based on race, gender and national origin. I examine the discourse of criminality, particularly notions of immigrant criminality that shapes the lives of documented and undocumented immigrants in Italy. I demons…
Italy's Racial Cauldron: Immigration, Criminalization and the Cultural Politics of Race
This article explores how race and racism shape Italian state practices and policies, and how these policies shape popular opinion on immigration. It is concerned with the ways in which African immigrants to Italy, as racially marked subjects, are affected by the discourses of race and criminalization. Rather than discuss immigrants in Italy's social landscape generally, this article focuses attention on immigration policies and forms of racism a…
Diasporic Conditions: Mapping the Discourses of Race and Criminality in Italy
Through a discussion of "diasporic conditions" this article examines the conditions of possibility of discursive formations of an African criminal-other that has a long and silent history in the African Diaspora. 1 explore how race, gender, and national origin figure into the ways the Italian state and its citizens construct African immigrant women as criminals. I map the significance of race and gender as it is grounded in criminological debates…
Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities
Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities. Jean Muteba Rahier ed. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. ix. 264 pp., figures, photographs, bibliography, index
Italy's Racial Cauldron: Immigration, Criminalization and the Cultural Politics of Race
This article explores how race and racism shape Italian state practices and policies, and how these policies shape popular opinion on immigration. It is concerned with the ways in which African immigrants to Italy, as racially marked subjects, are affected by the discourses of race and criminalization. Rather than discuss immigrants in Italy's social landscape generally, this article focuses attention on immigration policies and forms of racism a…
Carving out Peaceful Tomorrows
Diasporic Conditions: Mapping the Discourses of Race and Criminality in Italy
Through a discussion of "diasporic conditions" this article examines the conditions of possibility of discursive formations of an African criminal-other that has a long and silent history in the African Diaspora. 1 explore how race, gender, and national origin figure into the ways the Italian state and its citizens construct African immigrant women as criminals. I map the significance of race and gender as it is grounded in criminological debates…
Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities
Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities. Jean Muteba Rahier ed. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. ix. 264 pp., figures, photographs, bibliography, index
A Question of Dangerous Races
Europe has moved toward more repressive immigration laws and enforcement measures. In this article I argue that the intensifying policing of national borders has created state-sanctioned practices of targeting particular immigrant groups, based on race, gender and national origin. I examine the discourse of criminality, particularly notions of immigrant criminality that shapes the lives of documented and undocumented immigrants in Italy. I demons…
Expert Witness: Notes toward Revisiting the Politics of Listening
Through an exploration of what it means to conduct fieldwork in a large European prison, this article explores both the promises and the limitations of the form of anthropological engagement some have called “witnessing.” I call attention to the ways anthropological witnessing is written about within the discipline and argue that the notion of “witnessing” is largely an attempt to establish the authority of the ethnographer, without ever having t…
Out of Chaos
Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism
Anthropology has long been associated with an ethos of engagement. The field's core methods and practices involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and their study participants, giving major research topics in the field a distinctively human face. The fact that these interactions frequently cross social parameters, including class, race, ethnicity, and gender, raises important questions. Can research findings be authentic and ob…
Witnessing: Virtual Conversations
This special feature presents curated excerpts from two virtual conversations that the editors (Liana Chua and Omri Grinberg) held with anthropologist and author Asale Angel-Ajani, historian Carolyn J. Dean and anthropologist and filmmaker Meg McLagan on the theme of witnessing. Beginning with the participants' reflexive discussions of how they came to work on witnessing, the conversations delve into several intertwined questions and debates. The…
Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Immigration (3 works) · Law (3 works)