Counting/Telling the Death and Disappearance of Persons in Migratory Context
Keywords:
factualization; migrants; death; disappearance; Mexico-United States borderAbstract
This article presents research results on the factualization systems around people’s death and disappearance, implemented by non-governmental and governmental actors, in Arizona (United States). These systems are social practices, which translate the experience (or “world”) into facts (or “reality”); in those systems, quantification plays an important role. We analyze two couple of factualization techniques: counting/mapping and listing/counting. We conclude with a threefold distinction in our case study: counting as quantification; counting as telling; and counting as mattering.
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Zimmerman, D.H. (1974). Fact as a Practical Accomplishment. En R. Turner (Ed.), Ethnomethodology (pp. 128-143). Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.
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Díaz Lize, P. (2020). Counting/Telling the Death and Disappearance of Persons in Migratory Context. Sociología Y Tecnociencia, 10(1), 1–24. Retrieved from https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/sociotecno/article/view/4216
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