A Nelson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 40148 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Nelson |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Nelson |
| FIRMA | NELSON A |
| AFILIACIONES | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0383-1806 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 144 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Structured Absence
This essay argues that while generative artificial intelligence (AI) can be described as a platform, that description is analytically insufficient for understanding where power operates and how it displaces democratic accountability. The platform concept directs attention to the interface—application programming interfaces (APIs), app stores, and developer ecosystems—while the decisive conditions of generative AI lie upstream in compute supply ch…
Field Theory
Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools, and systems pose three interrelated imperatives for social science: they demand renewed attention to social theories of how technology, human experience, and social order are entangled; they require study as objects of inquiry in their own right; a…
Plano De Defesa Contra Ataques Do Novo Cangaço
O objetivo deste trabalho é expor o processo de construção de um plano de defesa por meio do uso da ferramenta de Design Sprint, por um Batalhão da Polícia Militar do Rio Grande do Norte, localizado no interior potiguar, como instrumento de inovação em gestão para o enfrentamento de ataques a instituições financeiras em municípios do interior por organizações criminosas especializadas, conhecidas como Novo Cangaço. Para isso, a metodologia utiliz…
The potential geographic accessibility of hospital services in Cluj County
Accessibility to medical services is an essential element for a higher quality of life.In a geographical sense, accessibility relies on location and distance.In the case of health geography, it is concerned with the location of health services and how they serve the health needs of the population.The present study tries to measure the potential access to hospital services for the population of Cluj County, using time and distance records provided…
Science and the State
Modern science and the modern state are inextricable and co-emergent.Indeed, the rise of the state form has been accomplished through the ways of knowing and extracting that scientific analysis makes possible -including classification, hierarchization, quantification, and reductionism.States have frequently used the sciences as powerful tools for defining and delimiting the polis, for expanding markets, and for deterring, threatening, and waging …
Genetics and the Unsettled Past
Our genetic markers have come to be regarded as portals to the past. Analysis of these markers is increasingly used to tell the story of human migration; to investigate and judge issues of social membership and kinship; to rewrite history and collective memory; to right past wrongs and to arbitrate legal claims and human rights controversies; and to open new thinking about health and well-being. At the same time, in many societies genetic evidenc…
Socially Desirable Reporting and the Expression of Biological Concepts of Race
In recent decades, dramatic developments in genetics research have begun to transform not only the practice of medicine but also conceptions of the social world. In the media, in popular culture, and in everyday conversation, Americans routinely link genetics to individual behavior and social outcomes. At the same time, some social researchers contend that biological definitions of race have lost ground in the United States over the last fifty ye…
The social life of DNA
The social life of DNA
This 2017British Journal of SociologyLecture builds upon ideas developed inThe Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome(Nelson 2016). I argue that one of the more significant developments of the postgenomic era is the circulation of DNA analysis outside of the life sciences, especially commercial applications such as direct-to-consumer genealogical testing. These tests are increasingly taken up in 'reconciliation…
Ten simple rules for responsible big data research
The use of big data research methods has grown tremendously over the past five years in both academia and industry. As the size and complexity of available datasets has grown, so too have the ethical questions raised by big data research. These questions become increasingly urgent as data and research agendas move well beyond those typical of the computational and natural sciences, to more directly address sensitive aspects of human behavior, int…
The Longue Durée of Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter was first articulated just a few years ago, but it has been the leitmotif of antiracist struggles for generations. The Movement for Black Lives extends the work of previous movements that challenged forms of oppression that act on Black bodies with impunity. It should be understood in the context of Ida B. Wells’ anti-lynching campaign, Fannie Lou Hamer’s reproductive justice demands, and the Black Panther Party’s health activi…
Genuine Struggle and Care”
Philadelphia native Cleo Silvers moved to New York City to take up a VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) post in the mid-1960s. In the course of her VISTA service, she was awakened to the extreme deprivation faced by many Blacks and Latinos in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York. This experience also occasioned a political awakening in Silvers, who sought to systematically understand the social and economic inequality she witnessed and how to …
Dna Ethnicity as Black Social Action
How and why are insights and inferences from genetic science being applied to U.S. racial politics, particularly African American cultural practices aimed at social repair, broadly conceived? Diasporic blacks in the United States are now engaged in a constellation of activities initiated by the discovery of information about their ancestral origins as inferred with the aid of genetic science. In some instances, they propel this information into a…
Troy Duster
Alondra Nelson speaks with Troy Duster about his intellectual genealogy and about racial inequality after the genome
Body and Soul
Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here the author recovers a lesser known aspect of the organization's broader struggle for social justice: health care. The Black Panther Party's health activism, its network of free health clinics, its campaign t…
Eliciting behavior change in a US sexual violence and intimate partner violence prevention program through utilization of Freire and discussion facilitation
Designed by Migrant Clinicians Network, the Hombres Unidos Contra La Violencia Familiar (Men United Against Family Violence) Project used facilitated discussion groups as the method to encourage self-reflection and behavior change. Male participants were not taught to rectify any past sexual or intimate partner violence (SV/IPV) 'tendencies', rather the discussion facilitation allowed them to reflect on the SV/IPV that was present in their lives …
Inclusion
Social Text
Despite the divergence between the accounts given by Stanley Aronowitz and Fredric Jameson of the origins of the name Social Text, it is worth exploring the use of the phrase in the work of Henri Lefebvre. Even if it is ultimately a false cognate, the chapter titled “The Social Text” in the second volume of his Critique of Everyday Life (1961) is an intriguing intertext for the journal, especially given the importance of the category of the “ever…
Bio Science
This paper considers the extent to which the geneticization of 'race' and ethnicity is the prevailing outcome of genetic testing for genealogical purposes. The decoding of the human genome precipitated a change of paradigms in genetics research, from an emphasis on genetic similarity to a focus on molecular-level differences among individuals and groups. This shift from lumping to splitting spurred ongoing disagreements among scholars about the s…
The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing
Commercially available tests of genetic ancestry have significant scientific limitations, but are serious matters for many test-takers.
Making the Impossible Possible
Research Article| June 01 2002 “Making the Impossible Possible”: AN INTERVIEW WITH NALO HOPKINSON Alondra Nelson Alondra Nelson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 97–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-97 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ic…
Bio Science
This paper considers the extent to which the geneticization of 'race' and ethnicity is the prevailing outcome of genetic testing for genealogical purposes. The decoding of the human genome precipitated a change of paradigms in genetics research, from an emphasis on genetic similarity to a focus on molecular-level differences among individuals and groups. This shift from lumping to splitting spurred ongoing disagreements among scholars about the s…
Socially Desirable Reporting and the Expression of Biological Concepts of Race
In recent decades, dramatic developments in genetics research have begun to transform not only the practice of medicine but also conceptions of the social world. In the media, in popular culture, and in everyday conversation, Americans routinely link genetics to individual behavior and social outcomes. At the same time, some social researchers contend that biological definitions of race have lost ground in the United States over the last fifty ye…
The Longue Durée of Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter was first articulated just a few years ago, but it has been the leitmotif of antiracist struggles for generations. The Movement for Black Lives extends the work of previous movements that challenged forms of oppression that act on Black bodies with impunity. It should be understood in the context of Ida B. Wells’ anti-lynching campaign, Fannie Lou Hamer’s reproductive justice demands, and the Black Panther Party’s health activi…
Genuine Struggle and Care”
Philadelphia native Cleo Silvers moved to New York City to take up a VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) post in the mid-1960s. In the course of her VISTA service, she was awakened to the extreme deprivation faced by many Blacks and Latinos in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York. This experience also occasioned a political awakening in Silvers, who sought to systematically understand the social and economic inequality she witnessed and how to …
Dna Ethnicity as Black Social Action
How and why are insights and inferences from genetic science being applied to U.S. racial politics, particularly African American cultural practices aimed at social repair, broadly conceived? Diasporic blacks in the United States are now engaged in a constellation of activities initiated by the discovery of information about their ancestral origins as inferred with the aid of genetic science. In some instances, they propel this information into a…
The social life of DNA
This 2017British Journal of SociologyLecture builds upon ideas developed inThe Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome(Nelson 2016). I argue that one of the more significant developments of the postgenomic era is the circulation of DNA analysis outside of the life sciences, especially commercial applications such as direct-to-consumer genealogical testing. These tests are increasingly taken up in 'reconciliation…
The social life of DNA
Inclusion
Social Text
Despite the divergence between the accounts given by Stanley Aronowitz and Fredric Jameson of the origins of the name Social Text, it is worth exploring the use of the phrase in the work of Henri Lefebvre. Even if it is ultimately a false cognate, the chapter titled “The Social Text” in the second volume of his Critique of Everyday Life (1961) is an intriguing intertext for the journal, especially given the importance of the category of the “ever…
Making the Impossible Possible
Research Article| June 01 2002 “Making the Impossible Possible”: AN INTERVIEW WITH NALO HOPKINSON Alondra Nelson Alondra Nelson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 97–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-97 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ic…
Making the Impossible Possible
Research Article| June 01 2002 “Making the Impossible Possible”: AN INTERVIEW WITH NALO HOPKINSON Alondra Nelson Alondra Nelson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 97–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-97 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ic…
The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing
Commercially available tests of genetic ancestry have significant scientific limitations, but are serious matters for many test-takers.
Bio Science
This paper considers the extent to which the geneticization of 'race' and ethnicity is the prevailing outcome of genetic testing for genealogical purposes. The decoding of the human genome precipitated a change of paradigms in genetics research, from an emphasis on genetic similarity to a focus on molecular-level differences among individuals and groups. This shift from lumping to splitting spurred ongoing disagreements among scholars about the s…
Inclusion
Social Text
Despite the divergence between the accounts given by Stanley Aronowitz and Fredric Jameson of the origins of the name Social Text, it is worth exploring the use of the phrase in the work of Henri Lefebvre. Even if it is ultimately a false cognate, the chapter titled “The Social Text” in the second volume of his Critique of Everyday Life (1961) is an intriguing intertext for the journal, especially given the importance of the category of the “ever…
Eliciting behavior change in a US sexual violence and intimate partner violence prevention program through utilization of Freire and discussion facilitation
Designed by Migrant Clinicians Network, the Hombres Unidos Contra La Violencia Familiar (Men United Against Family Violence) Project used facilitated discussion groups as the method to encourage self-reflection and behavior change. Male participants were not taught to rectify any past sexual or intimate partner violence (SV/IPV) 'tendencies', rather the discussion facilitation allowed them to reflect on the SV/IPV that was present in their lives …
Body and Soul
Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here the author recovers a lesser known aspect of the organization's broader struggle for social justice: health care. The Black Panther Party's health activism, its network of free health clinics, its campaign t…
Troy Duster
Alondra Nelson speaks with Troy Duster about his intellectual genealogy and about racial inequality after the genome
Dna Ethnicity as Black Social Action
How and why are insights and inferences from genetic science being applied to U.S. racial politics, particularly African American cultural practices aimed at social repair, broadly conceived? Diasporic blacks in the United States are now engaged in a constellation of activities initiated by the discovery of information about their ancestral origins as inferred with the aid of genetic science. In some instances, they propel this information into a…
The Longue Durée of Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter was first articulated just a few years ago, but it has been the leitmotif of antiracist struggles for generations. The Movement for Black Lives extends the work of previous movements that challenged forms of oppression that act on Black bodies with impunity. It should be understood in the context of Ida B. Wells’ anti-lynching campaign, Fannie Lou Hamer’s reproductive justice demands, and the Black Panther Party’s health activi…
Genuine Struggle and Care”
Philadelphia native Cleo Silvers moved to New York City to take up a VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) post in the mid-1960s. In the course of her VISTA service, she was awakened to the extreme deprivation faced by many Blacks and Latinos in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York. This experience also occasioned a political awakening in Silvers, who sought to systematically understand the social and economic inequality she witnessed and how to …
Ten simple rules for responsible big data research
The use of big data research methods has grown tremendously over the past five years in both academia and industry. As the size and complexity of available datasets has grown, so too have the ethical questions raised by big data research. These questions become increasingly urgent as data and research agendas move well beyond those typical of the computational and natural sciences, to more directly address sensitive aspects of human behavior, int…
The social life of DNA
The social life of DNA
This 2017British Journal of SociologyLecture builds upon ideas developed inThe Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome(Nelson 2016). I argue that one of the more significant developments of the postgenomic era is the circulation of DNA analysis outside of the life sciences, especially commercial applications such as direct-to-consumer genealogical testing. These tests are increasingly taken up in 'reconciliation…
Socially Desirable Reporting and the Expression of Biological Concepts of Race
In recent decades, dramatic developments in genetics research have begun to transform not only the practice of medicine but also conceptions of the social world. In the media, in popular culture, and in everyday conversation, Americans routinely link genetics to individual behavior and social outcomes. At the same time, some social researchers contend that biological definitions of race have lost ground in the United States over the last fifty ye…
Genetics and the Unsettled Past
Our genetic markers have come to be regarded as portals to the past. Analysis of these markers is increasingly used to tell the story of human migration; to investigate and judge issues of social membership and kinship; to rewrite history and collective memory; to right past wrongs and to arbitrate legal claims and human rights controversies; and to open new thinking about health and well-being. At the same time, in many societies genetic evidenc…
The potential geographic accessibility of hospital services in Cluj County
Accessibility to medical services is an essential element for a higher quality of life.In a geographical sense, accessibility relies on location and distance.In the case of health geography, it is concerned with the location of health services and how they serve the health needs of the population.The present study tries to measure the potential access to hospital services for the population of Cluj County, using time and distance records provided…
Science and the State
Modern science and the modern state are inextricable and co-emergent.Indeed, the rise of the state form has been accomplished through the ways of knowing and extracting that scientific analysis makes possible -including classification, hierarchization, quantification, and reductionism.States have frequently used the sciences as powerful tools for defining and delimiting the polis, for expanding markets, and for deterring, threatening, and waging …
Plano De Defesa Contra Ataques Do Novo Cangaço
O objetivo deste trabalho é expor o processo de construção de um plano de defesa por meio do uso da ferramenta de Design Sprint, por um Batalhão da Polícia Militar do Rio Grande do Norte, localizado no interior potiguar, como instrumento de inovação em gestão para o enfrentamento de ataques a instituições financeiras em municípios do interior por organizações criminosas especializadas, conhecidas como Novo Cangaço. Para isso, a metodologia utiliz…
Structured Absence
This essay argues that while generative artificial intelligence (AI) can be described as a platform, that description is analytically insufficient for understanding where power operates and how it displaces democratic accountability. The platform concept directs attention to the interface—application programming interfaces (APIs), app stores, and developer ecosystems—while the decisive conditions of generative AI lie upstream in compute supply ch…
Field Theory
Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools, and systems pose three interrelated imperatives for social science: they demand renewed attention to social theories of how technology, human experience, and social order are entangled; they require study as objects of inquiry in their own right; a…
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