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DESCRIPTION:“He has the ‘look’”: The social meanings and political effects 
 of an FASD diagnosis\n\nby Les Sabiston\, PhD\, Assistant Professor\, Depa
 rtment of Anthropology\, 9I���������.\n\nThis talk will be held by Z
 oom. \n\nBiography: \n\nLes Sabiston is Métis from Selkirk\, Manitoba\, wh
 ich is also known in Cree as Aswahonanihk (Place where you cross the river
 ). He is an assistant professor of Anthropology at 9I���������\, tea
 ching at the discipline’s juncture with Indigenous Studies. In his researc
 h and teaching\, Les seeks to develop new anthropological frameworks from 
 which to think of European-Settler encounter with peoples of the Western h
 emisphere\, and to develop ethnographic tools and sensibilities that can p
 erceive how this complex historical-political event is continually rehears
 ed and structured within various social forms of relation\, individual emb
 odiments\, practices and patterns of reason\, and habits of emotion and af
 fect.\n\nCurrent Research description: \n\nHis current work focuses on the
  myriad social\, institutional\, epistemological\, and technical ways that
  the neurodevelopmental disorder known as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder 
 (FASD) has so readily become associated as an ‘Indigenous Problem’ across 
 many social genres. From an ethnographic approach\, he has been driven by 
 the simple question of asking people how they know that another has FASD?\
 , and then following the threads in which these judgments take form throug
 h individual\, social and institutional meaning making processes. In his e
 thnographic fieldwork\, Les spent two years embedded in a variety of insti
 tutional locations – primarily\, his work took place at community outreach
  organizations in Winnipeg that were dedicated to serving clientele with F
 ASD. In addition to being able to gain perspective from individuals who we
 re designated to have FASD\, as well as their families and friends\, this 
 fieldwork enabled him to have regular contact with social workers\, probat
 ion officers\, lawyers and judges\, prison guards\, landlords\, and a host
  of FASD advocates who surrounded these individuals on an everyday basis a
 nd who shared various notions of what FASD was and how it affected these c
 lientele. Les also spent a lot of time working in a clinical setting with 
 a diagnostic team that consisted of physicians\, psychologists\, social wo
 rkers\, and speech language therapists. In his fieldwork he has found that
  FASD diagnoses are less than straight forward\, and are often caught in a
 n ambiguous state between the designations of “confirmed” and “suspected” 
 diagnosis. He has found that this space of ambiguity was one in which most
  social actors\, from clinicians to foster parents\, have learned to dwell
 \, and that this ambiguity provided a productive force for capturing prima
 rily Indigenous peoples within the diagnostic gaze of FASD. The paper he w
 ill be presenting today will try to make sense of this productive ambiguit
 y.\n\nPaper Abstract: \n\n“He has the ‘look’”: The social meanings and pol
 itical effects of an FASD diagnosis \n\nIn this presentation I will provid
 e some ethnographic descriptions on how Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (F
 ASD) is diagnosed within a gamut of clinical\, legal\, and other social fi
 elds in order to try and make sense of how and why this diagnosis is tied 
 almost exclusively to Indigenous peoples in Canada. With anthropological a
 ttention to relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Can
 ada\, this presentation will focus on the ways that this diagnostic travel
 s between different social and institutional registers through shared cult
 ural and political forms of apprehension – from the scientific measurement
 s of facial and physiological dysmorphia\, to legal and criminological mod
 es of categorizing and accounting for abnormal behavior\, to anthropologic
 al discourses on what constitutes Indigeneity\, to everyday social forms o
 f recognition in which Indigenous youth are both captured and expelled by 
 domestic desires and familial fantasies of love. By exploring the social\,
  structural\, epistemic\, and phenomenological harmonies that enable this 
 diagnostic mode of apprehension to travel so seamlessly between different 
 social registers and spaces\, this paper also explores the implications of
  these anthropological claims for thinking about the forms of recognition 
 and apprehension in contemporary projects of reconciliation with Indigenou
 s peoples in Canada.\n
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SUMMARY:Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry\, Culture and Communi
 ty Mental Health Speaker Series
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 ltural-psychiatry-culture-and-community-mental-health-speaker-series-34261
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