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II
CLASSIFICATION AND BIOGRAPHY, OR SYSTEM AND SUFFERING |
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The last three chapters have looked at classification and wide-scale coordination among multiple organizations. The next two chapters examine the relationship between classification and biography. How do classification systems that intimately interpenetrate our livesshaping and being shaped by themaffect our experience? Chapter 5 looks at the intimate classification systems developed by sufferers of tuberculosis and their doctors. We develop there the themes of trajectory (the movement through time of lives, diseases, and institutions) and torque (the twisting of that biography in the framework of a classification system). Chapter 6 develops these themes further through an analysis of race classification schemes in South Africa under apartheid. Through this extreme example we explore how difficult it is to operate a simple dichotomous classification scheme and how the lives of those caught in its interstices are torqued. |
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