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.

该研究的目的是通过改变我们的道德方法并批判性地审视我们在社会和政治叙事中的地位，改善法医人类学的实践——在法律背景下对人体骨骼进行分析，例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有能力做到这一点。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要努力解决类似的社会和政治问题，这些问题影响着整个过程中的每个人——从失踪人员和身份不明者的家人，到管理项目的组织，再到法医从业者本身。如果没有清楚地了解这些困难，因此没有办法克服这些困难，法医人类学家就无法有效地解释其工作中的伦理问题。对于我们试图服务的人们来说，这会带来切实的、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。可以通过交叉方法重新概念化这一范式，这是黑人女权主义学术界开发的一种理论模型，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落入我们的调查裂缝的系统性问题，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改变我们的范式至关重要。通过发表这项研究和为法医从业者编写交叉手册，我们可以做出这些根本性的改变。这项重要的努力还将通过法医人类学家自愿网络的发展得到支持，该网络将参与与公众的公开讨论，并为需要法医服务的个人提供相关资源。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。