Torquing Things Out
Race and Classification in Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star's Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 11261335 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Stefan Helmreich (0000-0003-0859-5881, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2003 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 435-440 |
| Data de publicação | 2003-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243903028003005 |
| OpenAlex | W2086076567 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 3 |
| Referências citadas | 3 |
In Sorting Things Out, Bowker and Star's meditation on technologies of classification, a central chapter pivots around the contradictions of racial classification in apartheid South Africa. Bowker and Star examine the stubborn refusal of 'race' to fit the desired classification system suborned by its pro-Apartheid designers (p. 196), and they hold that the contradictions constitutive of racial categorization had a particular effect on the racially subordinated: their life trajectories were wrenched out of alignment, subjected to what Bowker and Star term torque. In this brief essay, I ask after some of the analytical and moral assumptions embedded in Bowker and Star's articulation of torque, and I ask what torque can and cannot tell us about the lived category of race
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| Intervalo de citações | 2006 - 2019 (14) |
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