Identity Politics and the New Genetics

Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-253-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 492 g

Reihe: Studies of the Biosocial Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schramm, Katharina

Skinner, David

Rottenburg, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie Physische Anthropologie, Paläoanthropologie, Evolutionäre Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Wachstum, Entwicklung, Altern
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Ideas in Motion: Making Sense of Identity After DNA

Katharina Schramm, David Skinner, Richard Rottenburg

Chapter 1. ‘Race’ as a Social Construction in Genetics

Andrew Smart, Richard Tutton, Paul Martin, George Ellison

Chapter 2. Mobile Identities and Fixed Categories: Forensic DNA and the Politics of Racialised Data

David Skinner

Chapter 3. Race, Kinship and the Ambivalence of Identity

Peter Wade

Chapter 4. Identity, DNA, and the State in Post-Dictatorship Argentina

Noa Vaisman

Chapter 5. ‘Do You Have Celtic, Jewish, Germanic Roots?’ – Applied Swiss History Before and After DNA

Marianne Sommer

Chapter 6. Irish DNA: Making Connections and Making Distinctions in Y-Chromosome Surname Studies

Catherine Nash

Chapter 7. Genomics en route: Ancestry, Heritage, and the Politics of Identity Across the Black Atlantic

Katharina Schramm

Chapter 8. Biotechnological Cults of Affliction? Race, Rationality, and Enchantment in Personal Genomic Histories

Stephan Palmié

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Schramm, Katharina
Katharina Schramm is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her publications include African Homecoming: Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage (2010) and  Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission (co-editor, 2009).

Rottenburg, Richard
Richard Rottenburg holds a chair in Social Anthropology at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and is Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He has written and edited books on the Sudan, economic anthropology, the transcultural production of objectivity and theorizing postneoliberal governance. Among these is Far-Fetched Facts: A Parable of Development Aid (2009).

Skinner, David
David Skinner is Reader in Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. His publications on the politics of race and science include ‘Racialised Futures: Biologism and the Changing Politics of Identity’ in Social Studies of Science (2006); and ‘Groundhog Day? The Strange Case of Sociology, Science and Race’ in Sociology (2007).

Katharina Schramm is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her publications include African Homecoming: Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage (2010) and  Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission (co-editor, 2009).