Population Genetics and Belonging

A Cultural Analysis of Genetic Ancestry

Venla Oikkonen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

VII, 240 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-62880-6 (ISBN)

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This book explores how human population genetics has emerged as a means of imagining and enacting belonging in contemporary society. Venla Oikkonen approaches population genetics as an evolving set of technological, material, narrative and affective practices, arguing that these practices are engaged in multiple forms of belonging that are often mutually contradictory. Considering scientific, popular and fictional texts, with several carefully selected case studies spanning three decades, the author traces shifts in the affective, material and gendered preconditions of population genetic visions of belonging. Topics encompass the debate about Mitochondrial Eve, ancient human DNA, temporality and nostalgia, commercial genetic ancestry tests, and tensions between continental and national genetic inheritance. The book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of science and technology studies, cultural studies, sociology, and gender studies.

Venla Oikkonen is Research Fellow at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland. Her research explores cultural aspects of genetics, evolutionary theory, and vaccine controversies. She is the author of Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Evolutionary Narratives, and received the 2015 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship.

Chapter 1: Studying Population Genetics and Belonging.- Chapter 2: Mitochondrial Eve and the Affective Politics of Scientific Technologies.- Chapter 3: Imagining Origins through Ancient Human DNA.- Chapter 4: Evolutionary Nostalgia and the Temporality of Belonging.- Chapter 5: Genetic Communities and the Boundaries of Belonging.- Chapter 6: Reflections on Methodology and Biotechnological Change.- Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.10.2017
Zusatzinfo	VII, 240 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	434 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Cheddar Man evolution • Collective memory • Cultural Anthropology • Cultural Studies • evolutionary origins • Finnish genetic inheritance • Gender and Sexuality • Gender Studies • Gender Studies, Gender Groups • genetic temporality • genomics • interdisciplinary studies • Kennewick Man evolution • Mitochondrial Eve • Parasite Eve • Popular science • Queer Studies • Science and Technology Studies • Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisc • Social & Cultural Anthropology • Social & Cultural Anthropology • Social groups: religious groups & communities • Social groups: religious groups & communities • Social Sciences • society & social sciences • Society & Social Sciences • Sociology • Sociology of Culture • Technoscience • temporality • Y-chromosome Adam
ISBN-10	3-319-62880-1 / 3319628801
ISBN-13	978-3-319-62880-6 / 9783319628806
Zustand	Neuware