{"id":8318,"date":"2024-06-14T17:20:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T21:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=8318"},"modified":"2024-06-14T17:20:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T21:20:25","slug":"kimberly-arkin","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/profile\/kimberly-arkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimberly Arkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Kimberly Arkin is a cultural anthropologist whose work explores the surprising ways that a powerful and meaningful fiction of French national community\u2014whether ethno-racial, cultural, and\/or moral\u2014has been produced, contested, and reproduced in the years following the turn of the millennium.\u00a0 Her first book,<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France, showed how<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>young, multiply liminal, upwardly mobile Parisian Jews of North African descent acted as a \u201cwedge\u201d minority in France. By tracing out young Jews\u2019 everyday attempts to distinguish themselves from both \u201cArabs\u201d and \u201cthe French,\u201d<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Rhinestones<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>explored the contingent production of normative Frenchness, on the one hand, and racial and religious \u201cothers,\u201d on the other.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(61, 74, 80)\" data-ogsb=\"white\">Dr. Arkin\u2019s current book project, entitled\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><i>Keepers of the National Faith: Secular Medical Morality on the French Mediterranean,\u00a0<\/i><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(61, 74, 80)\" data-ogsb=\"white\">again offers an ethnographic account of the French nation, but this time as a community of responsibility rather than belonging.<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(61, 74, 80)\" data-ogsb=\"white\">\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0Growing out of fieldwork with state-paid medical practitioners working in assisted reproduction and palliative care in three southern French hospitals, this project involves an ethnographic examination of how doctors and nurses argued for, understood, and enacted moral responsibility in relation to patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- =========================================== BORDER ========================================== --><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"min-width: 100%; background-color: grey;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 14px; color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,lucida grande,lucida sans unicode,lucida sans,tahoma,sans-serif;\"><strong>Additional Information<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><button style=\"border-radius: 4px;background-color: #ffe900\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/profile\/kimberly-arkin\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: black;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>BU Profile<\/b><\/a><\/button><\/p>\n<p><button style=\"border-radius: 4px;background-color: #ffe900\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/files\/2020\/08\/Arkin-CV-January-2023.pdf\" style=\"color: black;\"><b>Curriculum Vitae<\/b><\/a><\/button><\/p>\n<p><button style=\"border-radius: 4px;background-color: #ffe900\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/cura-publications?filter=kimberly\" style=\"color: black;\"><b>Publications<\/b><\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22977,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8320,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8318\/revisions\/8320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}