Bill Staples

CANCELLED SSC Seminar Series: Bill Staples

CANCELLED Bill Staples, PhD, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas



Documenting the Body; Creating the Self: governance and the modern birth certificate


MacCorry Room D411 (Sociology lounge)

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Staples argues that the deployment of the birth certificate is a practice centered on the regulation of bodies, the government of conduct, and the formation of the self. An examination of this form of identification offers...