Gonzalez-Polledo, EJ and Posocco, S. 2021. Archives, promises, values: forensic infrastructures in times of austerity. Critique of Anthropology, 41(1), pp. 3-20. ISSN 0308-275X [Article]

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Abstract or Description

This article analyses the role of infrastructures in the ‘bioinformational turn’ in forensic science and examines processes through which evidence is constituted, validated, or challenged in and through domains of expertise that engage different techniques, data, objects and knowledges through infrastructural arrangements. While the digitisation of the infrastructures that underpin forensic service delivery promised connectivity, prosperity and wellbeing, in reality it also brought forward new levels of risk and vulnerability, generating new tensions and frictions in the body politic. As genetic science reaches post-archival horizons through new genetic sequencing technologies, forensic science in post-archival times raises questions concerning the differential impact of the fragmentation of analytical and archival infrastructures and increasingly asynchronous bureaucracies whose role is displaced by the relative autonomy of datasets and computational architectures that elude governance oversight and citizens’ scrutiny.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X20974079
Additional Information:	forthcoming March 2021, issue 41.1 This article is subject to copyright. Copyright holder requires following statement to be completed once available: Author(s), Contribution Title, Journal Title (Journal Volume Number and Issue Number) pp. xx-xx. Copyright © [year] (Copyright Holder). DOI: [DOI number].
Keywords:	Archives, austerity, bioinformation, data, England and Wales, forensic science, infrastructures
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Anthropology
Dates:	Date Event 21 January 2020 Accepted 7 December 2020 Published Online 1 March 2021 Published
Item ID:	28245
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2020 10:24
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2021 22:56
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/28245

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