4-1045 VULNERABLE GOVERNMENT: BUREAUCRACY, MATERIALITY, HUMANITY

Friday, November 18, 2011: 16:00-17:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students

Organizers: Ramah McKay (Princeton University) and Rania Kassab Sweis (Stanford University)

Chairs: Rania Kassab Sweis (Stanford University)

Discussants: Miriam Ticktin (The New School for Social Research)

16:00

Lives On/of Paper

Heath Cabot (Princeton University)

16:15

Children On the Verge of Crisis: Humanitarian Psychiatry and the ‘Street Child’ In Egypt

Rania Kassab Sweis (Stanford University)

16:30

Sexualizing the Orphan: Humanitarian Non-Governmentality and the Production of Undisciplined Subjects In Botswana

Bianca Dahl (Brown University)

16:45

The Necropolitics of Humanitarianism: (Self-)Reflections On HIV/AIDS In Northern Uganda

Sam Dubal (University of California-Berkeley and Harvard Medical School)

17:00

The View From the Filing Cabinet: Patients On Paper In Mozambique

Ramah McKay (Princeton University)

17:15

Discussant

Miriam Ticktin (The New School for Social Research)

17:30

Discussion

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