Overview
Introduces readers to population genetics in an accessible and engaging style
Highlights the mutual entanglement of genetic science and society
Identifies and characterises different aspects of popular engagement with population genetics, and shows how these are implicated in discourses of gender, sexuality, race and class
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Population Genetics and Belonging
Book Subtitle: A Cultural Analysis of Genetic Ancestry
Authors: Venla Oikkonen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62881-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62880-6Published: 28 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87418-0Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62881-3Published: 19 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 240
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Sociology of Culture