Population Genetics and Belonging: A Cultural Analysis of Genetic Ancestry – eBook PDF Population Genetics and Belonging (PDF) explores how human population genetics has arisen as a means of imagining and enacting belonging in contemporary society. Venla Oikkonen considers population genetics as a developing set of material, a technological, narrative, and affective practices, arguing that these practices are involved in multiple forms of belonging that are often mutually contradictory. Considering popular, scientific, and fictional texts, with numerous carefully selected case studies spanning three decades, the author traces shifts in the affective, material, and gendered preconditions of population genetic visions of...
Population Genetics and Belonging: A Cultural Analysis of Genetic Ancestry – PDF
