Graham Denyer Willis
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View article: From ‘ID’ to proactive profiling: Identity, selective governance and the speculative making of bodies as borders
From ‘ID’ to proactive profiling: Identity, selective governance and the speculative making of bodies as borders Open
In today’s age of revanchist nationalism and xenophobia, ‘identity’ is commonly understood as a question of collective belonging. But another valence of identity is highly empirical, associated with the individual and constantly enforced b…
View article: ‘Trust and safety’: exchange, protection and the digital market–fortress in platform capitalism
‘Trust and safety’: exchange, protection and the digital market–fortress in platform capitalism Open
As a space of exchange that transcends historic jurisdictions, the Internet lacks a dominant security provider. This research examines how and why firms in platform capitalism have developed their own method and means of protection. ‘Trust…
View article: Eating pizza in prison
Eating pizza in prison Open
Police work is obviously a question of pursuing subjects. In postslave societies, one figure dominates; police are always after the young Black man. Meanwhile, another distinctive subject of policing exists. In São Paulo, Brazil, police de…
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Special issue introduction Open
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View article: Special issue introduction: burial and the politics of dead bodies in times of COVID-19
Special issue introduction: burial and the politics of dead bodies in times of COVID-19 Open
This article considers how the reburial and commemoration of the human remains of the Republican defeated during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) is affected by the social, scientific and political context in which the exhumations occur. Fo…
View article: Mundane disappearance: The politics of letting disappear in Brazil
Mundane disappearance: The politics of letting disappear in Brazil Open
Every year between 20 and 25,000 people ‘go missing’ in São Paulo state in Brazil. But in Brazilian law disappearance is just a fato atípico, an ‘atypical occurrence’. There is no causal relationship between act and violence to be legally …
View article: Legitimacy in Criminal Governance: Managing a Drug Empire from Behind Bars
Legitimacy in Criminal Governance: Managing a Drug Empire from Behind Bars Open
States, rebels, and mafias all provide governance beyond their core membership; increasingly, so do prison gangs. US gangs leverage control over prison life to govern street-level drug markets. Brazil’s Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) ga…
View article: VIS: the visible imager for Euclid
VIS: the visible imager for Euclid Open
Euclid-VIS is the large format visible imager for the ESA Euclid space mission in their Cosmic Vision program, scheduled for launch in 2021. Together with the near infrared imaging within the NISP instrument, it forms the basis of the weak…
View article: The Potter's Field
The Potter's Field Open
I unpack the “potter's field” as an everyday practice and a category, especially as it operates in the material treatment of bodies as a mirror of life. I examine this space of “worthlessness” as it exists in liberal capitalism. From the p…
View article: Strategic workforce planning in healthcare: A multi-methodology approach
Strategic workforce planning in healthcare: A multi-methodology approach Open
This paper presents a description of the development and use of a framework for strategic workforce planning for healthcare at the national level. The framework is called the Robust Workforce Planning Framework, and was developed by the Ce…
View article: The Potter's Field
The Potter's Field Open
I unpack the ‘potter’s field’ as an everyday practice and a category, especially as it operates in the material treatment of bodies as a mirror of life. I examine this space of ‘worthlessness’ as it exists in liberal capitalism. From the p…
View article: City of clones: Facsimiles and governance in São Paulo, Brazil
City of clones: Facsimiles and governance in São Paulo, Brazil Open
São Paulo is a megacity defined by formal and informal patterns of urbanization. Informally urbanized spaces are not absent of state intent, despite appearances. Grassroots-led social and spatial practices for survival, agency and self-gov…
View article: Before the Body Count: Homicide Statistics and Everyday Security in Latin America
Before the Body Count: Homicide Statistics and Everyday Security in Latin America Open
Homicide statistics are a widely accepted metric of security and democracy. This article argues for a focus on how bodies come or do not come to be counted – of what happens before states enumerate. The experience of São Paulo relates that…