Intersectional Forensic Anthropology: Shifting Our Methodological Paradigm

交叉法医人类学：改变我们的方法论范式

• 批准号: ES/X006190/1
• 负责人: Sarah Maya Rosen
• 金额: $ 12.09万
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX006190%2F1
• 关键词: Intersectional; Forensic; Anthropology; Shifting; Our

The aim of the research is to improve the practice of forensic anthropology-the analysis of the human skeleton in legal contexts, such as crime scene investigations and humanitarian responses-through changing our ethical approaches and critically examining our place in social and political narratives. The goal of forensic anthropology is to serve the living by analysing the dead, but unfortunately, forensic anthropologists are not always equipped to do so because of shortcomings in our methods and procedures. In fact, the findings of this research demonstrate that even in distinct contexts, forensic anthropologists often grapple with similar social and political issues that impact everyone in the process-from the families of missing and unidentified persons, to the organisations administrating the programmes, to the forensic practitioners themselves. Without a clear understanding of these difficulties, and therefore without a way to overcome these difficulties, forensic anthropologists cannot effectively account for ethical issues in their work. This has tangible, and often traumatic, outcomes for the very people we are attempting to serve. It is necessary to change this dynamic by shifting our ethical discussions from reactionary to pre-emptive. It is possible to reconceptualise this paradigm through an intersectional approach, which is a theoretical model developed in Black feminist academia that accounts for the unequal systems we function within and highlights the concomitant problems many individuals face within these systems. Through an intersectional approach, we can begin to address the systematic ways in which our methods and procedures let some people fall through our investigative cracks, especially due to ethnic, economic, political, and gender inequalities. Disseminating this research alongside a practical model for addressing these systematic problems is crucial to begin to shift our paradigm. Through the publication of this research and the development of an intersectional handbook for forensic practitioners, we can make these fundamental changes. This important effort will also be supported through the development of a voluntary network of forensic anthropologists who will participate in open discussions with the public and sign-post individuals in need of forensic services to relevant resources. The Forensic Anthropology Intersectional Roundtable (FAIR) will play a critical role in improving transparency and public outreach within the field.

这项研究的目的是通过改变我们的伦理方法和批判性地审视我们在社会和政治叙事中的地位，来改进法医人类学的实践——在法律背景下对人类骨骼的分析，比如犯罪现场调查和人道主义反应。法医人类学的目标是通过分析死者来为生者服务，但不幸的是，由于我们的方法和程序存在缺陷，法医人类学家并不总是具备这样的能力。事实上，这项研究的结果表明，即使在不同的背景下，法医人类学家也经常努力解决影响过程中每个人的类似社会和政治问题——从失踪人员和身份不明人员的家庭，到管理项目的组织，再到法医从业者自己。没有对这些困难的清楚认识，因此也就没有办法克服这些困难，法医人类学家就不能有效地解释他们工作中的伦理问题。这对我们试图服务的人来说是实实在在的，往往是创伤性的结果。有必要通过将我们的道德讨论从反动转向先发制人来改变这种动态。通过交叉方法重新定义这种范式是可能的，交叉方法是黑人女权主义学术界发展的理论模型，它解释了我们在其中运作的不平等系统，并强调了许多个人在这些系统中面临的伴随问题。通过交叉方法，我们可以开始解决我们的方法和程序让一些人在我们的调查裂缝中失败的系统方式，特别是由于种族，经济，政治和性别不平等。将这项研究与解决这些系统问题的实用模型一起传播，对于开始转变我们的范式至关重要。通过这项研究的出版和法医从业者交叉手册的开发，我们可以做出这些根本性的改变。还将通过建立一个自愿的法医人类学家网络来支持这项重要的努力，这些人将参加与公众的公开讨论，并向需要法医服务的个人介绍有关资源。法医人类学交叉圆桌会议（FAIR）将在提高该领域的透明度和公众宣传方面发挥关键作用。