Identity politics and the new genetics re/creating categories of difference and belonging
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Berghahn Books
2012, 2012
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| Series: | Studies of the Biosocial Society
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (221 pages) |
| ISBN: | 661359184X 9786613591845 9781789204711 1280496614 9781280496615 1789204712 |