Helena Machado

Memória de ninguém é sobre uma mulher em luto após a morte do pai. Prestes a completar quarenta anos, ela entra em crise profunda diante da passagem do tempo, de sua própria incapacidade de concretizar qualquer coisa. Ao retornar à antiga casa de infância, é atropelada por lembranças para as quais tenta dar um sentido: a relação com a mãe e as irmãs gêmeas, os distúrbios alimentares, as tragédias familiares, os relacionamentos abusivos. Do riso ao pranto, do grito ao silêncio, do cotidiano às questões existenciais, as memórias chegam em torvelinho. Pairando sobre elas, uma memória que, mesmo sem contorno, teima em não ser esquecida. Um trauma que parece não pertencer a ninguém.

Memória de ninguém

Sheila Khan

Nazir Ahmed Can

Based on the premise that the project of Western Modernity is a structuring element of our societies, Racism and Racial Surveillance explores in detail its legacies of coloniality and racialization that interfere in a subtle and perverse way in the current social, cultural and political systems. Guided by an interdisciplinary methodology, the various contributions privilege historical contexts of colonial formation and offer a thorough and intersectional analysis on the specters of coloniality in the upsurge of racism, surveillance, and criminalization, as well as the presence of the phantom of the race in spaces of knowledge production such as that of artistic field, forensic genetics and criminal identification. Drawing on multi case studies the book then proffers key concepts and historical background that will be of interest to researchers, students and professionals in a broad range of areas of social sciences and humanities research, including fields such as criminology and policing, science and technology studies, arts studies, literary studies, race and ethnic studies and, finally, memory studies. Chapters 8, 9 and 10 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Modernity Matters

Racism and Racial Surveillance

Barbara Prainsack

The real heroes of television crime shows in the twenty-first century are no longer police detectives but forensic technologies. The immense popularity of high-tech crime television shows has changed the way in which crime scene work is viewed. The term 'CSI-effect' was coined to signify a situation where people's views and practices have been influenced by such media representations, e.g. judges and jurors putting more weight on forensic evidence that has been produced with high-tech tools - in particular, DNA evidence - than on other kinds of evidence. While considerable scholarly attention has been paid to examining the CSI effect on publics, jurors, judges, and police investigators, prisoners' views on forensic technologies and policing have been under-explored. Drawing on a research sample of over 50 interviews carried out with prisoners in Portugal and Austria, this groundbreaking book shows how prisoners view crime scene traces, how they understand crime scene technologies, and what effect they attribute to the existence of large police databases on their own lives, careers, and futures. Through critically engaging with STS, sociological and criminological perspectives on the use of DNA technologies within the criminal justice system, this work provides the reader with valuable insights into the effect of different legal, political, discursive, and historical configurations on how crime scene technologies are utilized by the police and related to by convicted offenders.

Prisoners' Views in the Era of CSI

Tracing Technologies

Madalena Oliveira

João Sarmento

Maria do Carmo Ribeiro

O conceito de crise é particularmente caro às Ciências Sociais. E é-o não apenas no domínio da Ciência Económica ou Política, mas também da Sociologia, da História, da Antropologia, da Educação, da Geografia e da Comunicação. Ao procurarem explicar as dinâmicas sociais como processos sujeitos à mudança e à transformação, estas ciências têm desenvolvido a ideia de que as crises são, não apenas momentos de depressão dos valores instituídos, mas também pontos de viragem histórica e civilizacional. Cada capítulo deste livro é um convite à reflexão da diversidade de experiências e problemáticas sociais da crise. Assumindo-a como noção plural, este volume encara a noção de crise(s) como central à análise crítica das sociedades.

Helena Machado

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