Nicole Iturriaga
Biographic Data
| ID | 169277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Iturriaga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Iturriaga |
| SIGNATURE | ITURRIAGA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9534-6239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Genetics and Scientific Values: Aaron Panofsky, Kushan Dasgupta, Nicole Iturriaga, and Bernard Koch Reply
This letter responds to the letter by Jan te Nijenhuis, Bryan J. Pesta, and John G. R. Fuerst in the May‐June 2025 issue of the Hastings Center Report
Racist Agnotology: How Myth-Making about Institutions and Knowledge Production Contributes to Racialized Ignorance
Recently, scholars have revitalized the study of race by exploring how ignorance epistemologically fortifies racial domination. To articulate terms of analysis, much of this literature invokes two recurrent modes of racialized ignorance—racist essentialism and racialized nonknowing. We introduce a third mode—racist agnotology. With racist agnotology, actors perpetuate racialized ignorance by characterizing social constructionist accounts of race …
Feminist retroviruses to white Sharia: Gender “science fan fiction” on 4Chan
This article demonstrates-based on an interpretive discourse analysis of three types of memes (Rabid Feminists, Women's Bodies, Policy Ideas) and secondary thread discourse on 4chan's "Politically Incorrect" discussion board-two key findings: (1) the existence of a gendered hate based scientific discourse, "science fan fiction," in online spaces and (2) how gender "science fan fiction" is an outcome of the male supremacist cosmology, by producing…
Confronting the “Weaponization” of Genetics by Racists Online and Elsewhere
Genomics research is regularly appropriated in social and political contexts to publicly legitimize unjust and malicious political views, policies, and actions. In recent years, there have been high‐profile cases of mass shooters, public intellectuals, and political insiders using genomics findings to convince audiences that deadly force and coercive policies against racial minorities are warranted. To create a just genomics, geneticists must con…
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology
Scholars and practitioners position health disparities research as an important tool for redressing race-based inequities and re-conceptualizing racialized health outcomes in non-essentialist terms. Given this context, we explore a peculiar phenomenon, which is the circulation of such research among white nationalists. We discover that white nationalists incorporate and respond to health disparities research not solely to defend racist and essent…
La comunicación para el desarrollo en Redeps
El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar el rol de la comunicación en los procesos de producción de capital social al interior de la Red de Economía Popular y Solidaria de Calderón (REDEPS). La organización, ubicada en la parroquia rural de Calderón, está formada por 12 emprendimientos: entre cajas solidarias de ahorro y crédito, emprendimientos productivos y artesanales. Desde una perspectiva multidisciplinaria, retoma conceptos de la c…
The necropolitical spectrum: Political lives of the surplus dead
This article sets forth a theoretical framework that first argues that necropolitical power and sovereignty should be understood as existing on a spectrum that ultimately produces the phenomenon of surplus death - such as pandemic deaths or those disappeared by the state. We then expound this framework by juxtaposing the necropolitical negligence of the COVID-19 pandemic with the violence of forced disappearances to argue that the surplus dead ha…
Trying to make race science the 'civil' science: Charisma in the Race and Intelligence Debates
When studying science contexts, scholars typically position charismatic authority as an adjunct or something that provides a meaning-laden boost to rational authority. In this paper, we re-theorize these relationships. We re-center charismatic authority as an interpretive resource that allows scientists and onlookers to recast a professional conflict in terms of a public drama. In this mode, both professionals and lay enthusiasts portray involvem…
How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics
OBJECTIVES: Our aim in this study was to understand how genetics ideas are appropriated and mobilized online toward the political projects of White nationalism and the alt right. Studying three different online venues, we investigated how genetics is used to support racial realism, hereditarianism, and racial hierarchy. We analyzed how these ideas are connected to political and metapolitical projects. In addition, we examined the strategies used …
The Evolution of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo's Mnemonic Framing
This article illustrates how human rights activists are negotiating post-authoritarian situations via framing strategies that counter the state's narrative of the past, puts state terror on full display, and aids activists in achieving their goals. In this article, I analyze the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo as a successful mnemonic-memory movement that advanced an alternative collective memory of Argentina's last military regime (1976–1983). I s…
At the Foot of the Grave: Challenging Collective Memories of Violence in Post-Franco Spain
Understanding the development and meaning of collective memory is a central interest for sociologists. One aspect of this literature focuses on the processes that social movement actors use to introduce long-silenced counter-memories of violence to supplant the 'official' memory. To examine this, I draw on 15 months of ethnographic observations with the Spanish Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) and 200 informal and 30 forma…
I Would Never Want to be an Only Wife: The Role of Discursive Networks and Post-Feminist Discourse in Reframing Polygamy
Understanding the processes that lead to change in institutions and meanings is a central concern of sociology. This paper examines the tactics used by “plural-marriage” activists to cast members of such marriages as an oppressed minority and portray polygamy as empowering to women. In-depth interviews with Mormon fundamentalist polygamist women (N = 30) and men (N = 4) involved in the plural-marriage-rights movement suggest that, to achieve thes…
At the Foot of the Grave: Challenging Collective Memories of Violence in Post-Franco Spain
Understanding the development and meaning of collective memory is a central interest for sociologists. One aspect of this literature focuses on the processes that social movement actors use to introduce long-silenced counter-memories of violence to supplant the 'official' memory. To examine this, I draw on 15 months of ethnographic observations with the Spanish Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) and 200 informal and 30 forma…
How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics
OBJECTIVES: Our aim in this study was to understand how genetics ideas are appropriated and mobilized online toward the political projects of White nationalism and the alt right. Studying three different online venues, we investigated how genetics is used to support racial realism, hereditarianism, and racial hierarchy. We analyzed how these ideas are connected to political and metapolitical projects. In addition, we examined the strategies used …
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology
Scholars and practitioners position health disparities research as an important tool for redressing race-based inequities and re-conceptualizing racialized health outcomes in non-essentialist terms. Given this context, we explore a peculiar phenomenon, which is the circulation of such research among white nationalists. We discover that white nationalists incorporate and respond to health disparities research not solely to defend racist and essent…
Trying to make race science the 'civil' science: Charisma in the Race and Intelligence Debates
When studying science contexts, scholars typically position charismatic authority as an adjunct or something that provides a meaning-laden boost to rational authority. In this paper, we re-theorize these relationships. We re-center charismatic authority as an interpretive resource that allows scientists and onlookers to recast a professional conflict in terms of a public drama. In this mode, both professionals and lay enthusiasts portray involvem…
The Evolution of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo's Mnemonic Framing
This article illustrates how human rights activists are negotiating post-authoritarian situations via framing strategies that counter the state's narrative of the past, puts state terror on full display, and aids activists in achieving their goals. In this article, I analyze the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo as a successful mnemonic-memory movement that advanced an alternative collective memory of Argentina's last military regime (1976–1983). I s…
I Would Never Want to be an Only Wife: The Role of Discursive Networks and Post-Feminist Discourse in Reframing Polygamy
Understanding the processes that lead to change in institutions and meanings is a central concern of sociology. This paper examines the tactics used by “plural-marriage” activists to cast members of such marriages as an oppressed minority and portray polygamy as empowering to women. In-depth interviews with Mormon fundamentalist polygamist women (N = 30) and men (N = 4) involved in the plural-marriage-rights movement suggest that, to achieve thes…
I Would Never Want to be an Only Wife: The Role of Discursive Networks and Post-Feminist Discourse in Reframing Polygamy
Understanding the processes that lead to change in institutions and meanings is a central concern of sociology. This paper examines the tactics used by “plural-marriage” activists to cast members of such marriages as an oppressed minority and portray polygamy as empowering to women. In-depth interviews with Mormon fundamentalist polygamist women (N = 30) and men (N = 4) involved in the plural-marriage-rights movement suggest that, to achieve thes…
The Evolution of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo's Mnemonic Framing
This article illustrates how human rights activists are negotiating post-authoritarian situations via framing strategies that counter the state's narrative of the past, puts state terror on full display, and aids activists in achieving their goals. In this article, I analyze the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo as a successful mnemonic-memory movement that advanced an alternative collective memory of Argentina's last military regime (1976–1983). I s…
At the Foot of the Grave: Challenging Collective Memories of Violence in Post-Franco Spain
Understanding the development and meaning of collective memory is a central interest for sociologists. One aspect of this literature focuses on the processes that social movement actors use to introduce long-silenced counter-memories of violence to supplant the 'official' memory. To examine this, I draw on 15 months of ethnographic observations with the Spanish Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) and 200 informal and 30 forma…
How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics
OBJECTIVES: Our aim in this study was to understand how genetics ideas are appropriated and mobilized online toward the political projects of White nationalism and the alt right. Studying three different online venues, we investigated how genetics is used to support racial realism, hereditarianism, and racial hierarchy. We analyzed how these ideas are connected to political and metapolitical projects. In addition, we examined the strategies used …
La comunicación para el desarrollo en Redeps
El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar el rol de la comunicación en los procesos de producción de capital social al interior de la Red de Economía Popular y Solidaria de Calderón (REDEPS). La organización, ubicada en la parroquia rural de Calderón, está formada por 12 emprendimientos: entre cajas solidarias de ahorro y crédito, emprendimientos productivos y artesanales. Desde una perspectiva multidisciplinaria, retoma conceptos de la c…
The necropolitical spectrum: Political lives of the surplus dead
This article sets forth a theoretical framework that first argues that necropolitical power and sovereignty should be understood as existing on a spectrum that ultimately produces the phenomenon of surplus death - such as pandemic deaths or those disappeared by the state. We then expound this framework by juxtaposing the necropolitical negligence of the COVID-19 pandemic with the violence of forced disappearances to argue that the surplus dead ha…
Trying to make race science the 'civil' science: Charisma in the Race and Intelligence Debates
When studying science contexts, scholars typically position charismatic authority as an adjunct or something that provides a meaning-laden boost to rational authority. In this paper, we re-theorize these relationships. We re-center charismatic authority as an interpretive resource that allows scientists and onlookers to recast a professional conflict in terms of a public drama. In this mode, both professionals and lay enthusiasts portray involvem…
Feminist retroviruses to white Sharia: Gender “science fan fiction” on 4Chan
This article demonstrates-based on an interpretive discourse analysis of three types of memes (Rabid Feminists, Women's Bodies, Policy Ideas) and secondary thread discourse on 4chan's "Politically Incorrect" discussion board-two key findings: (1) the existence of a gendered hate based scientific discourse, "science fan fiction," in online spaces and (2) how gender "science fan fiction" is an outcome of the male supremacist cosmology, by producing…
Confronting the “Weaponization” of Genetics by Racists Online and Elsewhere
Genomics research is regularly appropriated in social and political contexts to publicly legitimize unjust and malicious political views, policies, and actions. In recent years, there have been high‐profile cases of mass shooters, public intellectuals, and political insiders using genomics findings to convince audiences that deadly force and coercive policies against racial minorities are warranted. To create a just genomics, geneticists must con…
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology
Scholars and practitioners position health disparities research as an important tool for redressing race-based inequities and re-conceptualizing racialized health outcomes in non-essentialist terms. Given this context, we explore a peculiar phenomenon, which is the circulation of such research among white nationalists. We discover that white nationalists incorporate and respond to health disparities research not solely to defend racist and essent…
Genetics and Scientific Values: Aaron Panofsky, Kushan Dasgupta, Nicole Iturriaga, and Bernard Koch Reply
This letter responds to the letter by Jan te Nijenhuis, Bryan J. Pesta, and John G. R. Fuerst in the May‐June 2025 issue of the Hastings Center Report
Racist Agnotology: How Myth-Making about Institutions and Knowledge Production Contributes to Racialized Ignorance
Recently, scholars have revitalized the study of race by exploring how ignorance epistemologically fortifies racial domination. To articulate terms of analysis, much of this literature invokes two recurrent modes of racialized ignorance—racist essentialism and racialized nonknowing. We introduce a third mode—racist agnotology. With racist agnotology, actors perpetuate racialized ignorance by characterizing social constructionist accounts of race …
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Genetics (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)