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Population Genetics and Belonging: A Cultural Analysis of Genetic Ancestry
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Population Genetics and Belonging: A Cultural Analysis of Genetic Ancestry Hardcover - 2017

by Venla Oikkonen


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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.

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  • Title Population Genetics and Belonging: A Cultural Analysis of Genetic Ancestry
  • Author Venla Oikkonen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
  • Date 2017-09-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9783319628806 / 3319628801
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.74 x 6.53 x 0.73 in (22.20 x 16.59 x 1.85 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 201.7

About the author

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.

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