L’identification des anonymes
What do the apparition of a corpse in the street, a hospital’s taking charge of a traumatised homeless man, and the disappearance of a person symbolise? An ethnographic investigation, conducted in an NGO in Hyderabad that works every day to identify those found without identity whether living or dea...
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Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative
2022-10-01
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| description | What do the apparition of a corpse in the street, a hospital’s taking charge of a traumatised homeless man, and the disappearance of a person symbolise? An ethnographic investigation, conducted in an NGO in Hyderabad that works every day to identify those found without identity whether living or dead, shines a light on biosocial and necrosocial inequalities at play in Indian urban spaces. Analysis of the victimology of those who lose their identity, and of the administrative and medical management of their situation, reveals institutional strategies for invisibilising or giving visibility to bodies and anonymous cases. Missing persons and unidentified bodies become revealers of social discrimination logics that transcend the life and death of numerous individuals in India. A study of the identification process sheds light on a government’s ability to manage its sick bodies and its corpses (medical and funerary dignity), and also shows the importance of local initiative as a method of social and health assistance. Through identification issues, the Satya Harishchandra Foundation provides a platform for the recognition of all that ails a structurally inegalitarian Indian society, which is fighting against the mistakes of the city of Hyderabad’s medical, medical-legal, and police institutions, by condemning the government’s silence in the face of the perception and management of vulnerable people in India. |
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