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Title Identity politics and the new genetics : re/creating categories of difference and belonging / edited by Katharina Schramm, David Skinner and Richard Rottenburg.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (221 pages))
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Studies of the Biosocial Society ; v. 6
Studies of the Biosocial Society ; v. 6.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
Contents "Race" as a social construction in genetics -- Mobile identities and fixed categories : forensic DNA and the politics of racialized data -- Race, kinship and the ambivalence of identity -- Identity, DNA and the state in post-dictatorship Argentina -- "Do you have Celtic, Jewish or Germanic roots?" Applied Swiss history before and after DNA -- Irish DNA : making connections and making distinctions in Y-chromosome surname studies -- Genomics en route : ancestry, heritage and the politics of identity across the Black Atlantic -- Biotechnological cults of affliction? Race, rationality and enchantment in personal genomic histories.
Summary Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular importance is the preoccupation with origins and personal discovery and the increasing use of racial and ethnic categories in social policy. This new genetic knowledge, expressed in technology and practice, has the potential to disrupt how race and ethnicity are debated, managed and lived. As such, this volume investigates the ways in which existing social categories are both maintained and transformed at the intersection of the natural (sciences) and the cultural (politics). The contributors include medical researchers, anthropologists, historians of science and sociologists of race relations; together, they explore the new and challenging landscape where biology becomes the stuff of identity.
Language English.
Subject DNA.
Genetic engineering.
Genomics.
Human population genetics.
Identity politics.
Race.
Population genetics.
Genetics, Population
Racial Groups -- genetics
Ethnicity -- genetics
DNA
Genomics
Racial Groups
ADN.
Génomique.
Génétique des populations humaines.
Politique identitaire.
Race.
Génétique des populations.
race (group of people)
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Genetics & Genomics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Population genetics
Identity politics
DNA
Genetic engineering
Genomics
Human population genetics
Race
Humangenetik
Politisches Bewusstsein
Populationsgenetik
Ethnische Identität
Populationsgenetik.
Genomik.
Gentechnologie.
Rassische Identität.
Indexed Term Medical
Genetics
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Added Author Rottenburg, Richard.
Schramm, Katharina.
Skinner, David, 1960-
Other Form: Print version: Identity politics and the new genetics New York : Berghahn Books, 2012. 9780857452535 (DLC) 2011029419
ISBN 9780857452535 (electronic bk.)
0857452533 (electronic bk.)
1280496614
9781280496615
9786613591845
661359184X
9781789204711
1789204712
0857452541 ebook
9780857452542 ebook
Standard No. AU@ 000069201222
NZ1 14540720
AU@ 000062577156

 
    
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