Refractions through culture
The new genomics in Iceland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2141386 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arnar Árnason (0000-0003-0806-7560, University of Aberdeen), Bob Simpson (University of Aberdeen) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 533-553 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0014184032000160550 |
| OpenAlex | W2016924656 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper explores the processes whereby complex scientific developments are rendered into locally intelligible idioms as part of strategies to incorporate a 'public' in decisions which may have profound implications in the longer term. We focus in particular on the recent developments in genetic technologies and take as our example the deCode biogenetic project in Iceland. We trace how the images and metaphors drawn upon by all sides of the debate created powerful resonances with Icelandic history and culture. We analyse these representations and the broader themes of ethnicity and nationalism which they invoke
Biology · Data science · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Focus (optics · Genome · Genomics · Icelandic · Linguistics · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Anthropology · Computer Science · Genetics · History · Law · Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease · Philosophy · Polar Research and Ecology · Race, Genetics, and Society
Narrativization of human population genetics
Data Paradoxes
Geneticizing Ethnicity
An imagined future community
Decoding the genetics debate
The evolution of property rights
Make No Bones About It
Situated knowledges and the spaces of consent
The Predicament of Nature
Tales of an island‐laboratory
Decontextualised? Dissociated? Detached? Mapping the Networks of Bioinformatics Exchange
Individual responsibility and the future of the nation. A case study of Icelandic public health measures to promote healthy eating and drinking
Acting ethically, responding culturally
Crisis futures
Make-up
Risk Society
Essays on the Anthropology of Reason
Money and the morality of exchange
The Work of Culture
Gendered genetics in Iceland
Mediated speculations in the genomics futures markets
Yin-yang genetics, or the HSD deCode controversy
Risk and Blame
Contested Commodities
Culture and History in Medieval Iceland
Iceland
Social and Temporal Dimensions in Icelandic Obituarial Discourse
Imagined genetic communities
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,68 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |