Jennifer A Liu
Biographic Data
| ID | 168716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer A Liu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer A |
| FAMILY NAME | Liu |
| SIGNATURE | LIU J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2770-1320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Identifying barriers to the production and use of routine health information in Western Province, Zambia
Recent decades of improvements to routine health information systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have increased the volume of health data collected. However, countries continue to face several challenges with quality production and use of information for decision-making at sub-national levels, limiting the value of health information for policy, planning and research. Improving the quality of data production and information use is…
Assessing the capacity for adaptation and collaboration in the context of freshwater pollution management in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Postcolonial Biotech
Where most accounts of biotech in Taiwan—indeed, globally—focus on its economic potential and its potential to heal various ills, a postcolonial and subimperial framing insists on attention to often underexamined aspects, for example, how biotech practices reflect specific nationalist desires and rely on forms of exploitation. A postcolonial and subimperial framing insists on the inclusion of other stories. Drawing Taiwan's nanxiang (southward) p…
Synthetic biology in Global Health
Drawing on Douglas and Stemerding's special issue of Systems and Synthetic Biology that examined synthetic biology in relation to global health, I suggest that synthetic biology (syn bio) work in global health should attend seriously to local contexts and would benefit from historical and anthropological insights. Specifically, I emphasize the importance, in syn bio projects, of: (1) the inclusion of multiple publics from the outset, (2) locating…
Asian Regeneration? Technohybridity in Taiwan's Biotech
Stem cell science is a modern global form, yet it serves deeply social and often nationalistic visions of the role of biotechnology, and its practices and meanings are contingent and situated. In this paper, I show how stem cell research represents a deliberate conjoining of biotechnology and national development in Taiwan. This paper is based on more than a year of ethnographic research conducted in Taiwan between 2005 and 2007 and builds upon C…
Aboriginal Fractions
Notions of identity in Taiwan are configured in relation to numbers. I examine the polyvalent capacities of enumerative technologies in both the production of ethnic identities and claims to political representation and justice. By critically historicizing the manner in which Aborigines in Taiwan have been, and continue to be, constructed as objects and subjects of scientific knowledge production through technologies of measuring, I examine the g…
Biological scarcity
Research and bioethical policies are increasingly seen to facilitate, rather than to impede, scientific progress.Bioethical structures, nonetheless, often fail to account for or to shape the specific social surrounds in which scientific research is conducted.In Taiwan, a perceived shortage in human biological donations threatens to hamper stem cell research progress.This paper considers the stalled national biobank project and the lack of a relia…
Sciences from Below
Aboriginal Fractions
Notions of identity in Taiwan are configured in relation to numbers. I examine the polyvalent capacities of enumerative technologies in both the production of ethnic identities and claims to political representation and justice. By critically historicizing the manner in which Aborigines in Taiwan have been, and continue to be, constructed as objects and subjects of scientific knowledge production through technologies of measuring, I examine the g…
Biological scarcity
Research and bioethical policies are increasingly seen to facilitate, rather than to impede, scientific progress.Bioethical structures, nonetheless, often fail to account for or to shape the specific social surrounds in which scientific research is conducted.In Taiwan, a perceived shortage in human biological donations threatens to hamper stem cell research progress.This paper considers the stalled national biobank project and the lack of a relia…
Sciences from Below
Asian Regeneration? Technohybridity in Taiwan's Biotech
Stem cell science is a modern global form, yet it serves deeply social and often nationalistic visions of the role of biotechnology, and its practices and meanings are contingent and situated. In this paper, I show how stem cell research represents a deliberate conjoining of biotechnology and national development in Taiwan. This paper is based on more than a year of ethnographic research conducted in Taiwan between 2005 and 2007 and builds upon C…
Aboriginal Fractions
Notions of identity in Taiwan are configured in relation to numbers. I examine the polyvalent capacities of enumerative technologies in both the production of ethnic identities and claims to political representation and justice. By critically historicizing the manner in which Aborigines in Taiwan have been, and continue to be, constructed as objects and subjects of scientific knowledge production through technologies of measuring, I examine the g…
Synthetic biology in Global Health
Drawing on Douglas and Stemerding's special issue of Systems and Synthetic Biology that examined synthetic biology in relation to global health, I suggest that synthetic biology (syn bio) work in global health should attend seriously to local contexts and would benefit from historical and anthropological insights. Specifically, I emphasize the importance, in syn bio projects, of: (1) the inclusion of multiple publics from the outset, (2) locating…
Postcolonial Biotech
Where most accounts of biotech in Taiwan—indeed, globally—focus on its economic potential and its potential to heal various ills, a postcolonial and subimperial framing insists on attention to often underexamined aspects, for example, how biotech practices reflect specific nationalist desires and rely on forms of exploitation. A postcolonial and subimperial framing insists on the inclusion of other stories. Drawing Taiwan's nanxiang (southward) p…
Assessing the capacity for adaptation and collaboration in the context of freshwater pollution management in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Identifying barriers to the production and use of routine health information in Western Province, Zambia
Recent decades of improvements to routine health information systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have increased the volume of health data collected. However, countries continue to face several challenges with quality production and use of information for decision-making at sub-national levels, limiting the value of health information for policy, planning and research. Improving the quality of data production and information use is…
Sociology (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Biobank (2 works)