Identity Politics and the New Genetics (eBook)

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).

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).

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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