ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
Exploring social (im)perceptibility
Recent years have seen previously largely unnoticed groups—frontline health workers, workers along global supply chains, victims of sexual abuse, people who subscribe to outlandish conspiracy theories—suddenly appearing in the limelight. This project takes a step back and documents the processes through which some people come to be unnoticed in the first place. NOTREALLYTHERE aims to transform sociologist Erving Goffman’s well-known but undertheorized concept of “non-person” into a fresh field of interdisciplinary inquiry. The project will interrogate being NOTREALLYTHERE as a representational effect, an interactional achievement, a particular subject position, and an affordance: a feature…
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