A Nieves Delgado
Biographic Data
| ID | 58040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Nieves Delgado |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Nieves |
| FAMILY NAME | Delgado |
| SIGNATURE | DELGADO A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5203-7222 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From Global to Local: Rethinking Population Descriptors in Biomedicine
Population descriptors (PDs) in biomedicine, like race and ethnicity, suffer from two problems. They introduce explanations with low proportionality, which fail to capture relevant causal relations; and their usage is motivated by a focus on global instead of local health issues. Both problems amount to, what we call, the ‘missing locality challenge’ of PDs leading to epistemic biases and stereotypes against local communities. We introduce a new …
Indigenous peoples and renewable energy: Impacts, contestations, and collective action
Although renewable energy (RE) transitions offer pathways to sustainability, their implementation often exacerbates existing injustices, particularly for indigenous communities. This paper examines indigenous peoples' complex and evolving relationship with RE transitions through a systematic review of 87 peer-reviewed articles. It identifies three key thematic areas:(1) the impacts of RE transitions on indigenous communities; (2) indigenous conte…
Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science: Global Dialogues and New Directions for Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of science has been, and continues to be, dominated by European and North American voices. By convening more diverse voices from across the globe, both new and standing ontological, epistemological, and methodological issues may be addressed, which would certainly be beneficial for the field. The recently published Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science (Routledge), edited by David Ludwig, Inkeri Koskinen, Zinhle Mncube, Lua…
Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: Meeting the Challenge of Indigenous Expertise
Transdisciplinary research knits together knowledge from diverse epistemic communities in addressing social-environmental challenges, such as biodiversity loss, climate crises, food insecurity, and public health. This article reflects on the roles of philosophy of science in transdisciplinary research while focusing on Indigenous and other subjugated forms of knowledge. We offer a critical assessment of demarcationist approaches in philosophy of …
Pluralist Ethnobiology: Between Philosophical Reflection and Transdisciplinary Action
In the introduction to this special issue on ethnobiology and philosophy, we consider how the included papers show that ethnobiology is an inherently pluralist project that has a unique potential to foster inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on issues such as the complex multispecies relations between humans and non-humans that one finds in livelihood practices such as farming and fishing, in conservation management, or in industrial resour…
Policing in Cryptoracial Societies: The Case of Mexico
Privacy in Social Media: A Perspective from the Logic of Care
Privacy loss is one of the primary issues associated with the use of social media or social network sites. These sites operate by collecting and sharing data from users to obtain economic revenue. As a solution, it is recommended that users be informed about safe online practices and that they should behave accordingly. However, this does not usually happen, which makes privacy regulations ineffective. We argue that a top-down, control-focused ap…
The Heredity Matrix: Genetics and the Understanding of Mestizaje , Health, and Belonging in Mexico
Empirical data gathered from group discussions with Mexican undergraduate students from different regions and backgrounds showed that students tend to incorporate information about genetics into their accounts of hereditary intergenerational transmission linked to issues of family resemblance, health, and mestizaje (racial admixture) in a nuanced, elaborated, and non-simplistic manner. Locality and cultural variations can define the ways heredita…
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a common statistical procedure. In forensics, it is used in facial recognition technologies and composite sketching systems. PCA is especially helpful in contexts with high facial diversity, which is often translated as racial diversity. In these settings, researchers use PCA to define a 'normal face' and organize the rest of the available facial diversity based on their resemblance to or difference from that…
Does the human microbiome tell us something about race
This paper critically discusses the increasing trend in human microbiome research to draw on the concept of race. This refers to the attempt to investigate the microbial profile of certain social and ethnic groups as embodied racial traits. Here, race is treated as a necessary category that helps in identifying and solving health challenges, like obesity and type-2 diabetes, in ‘western’ or indigenous populations with particular microbial charact…
The Problematic Use of Race in Facial Reconstruction
Facial reconstructions have gained importance in museum exhibitions and in forensic sciences in recent years. These objects aim to represent faces from the past and present to elicit recognition in the public. Even though the face is a highly individual object, its reconstruction depends on the application of a number of general categories. One of the most central is race. When reconstructing a face, experts carry out a particular way of seeing –…
The Face of the Mexican: Race, Nation, and Criminal Identification in Mexico
Various scientific techniques are used worldwide in contemporary criminal identification. Caramex, called the "Face of the Mexican," is a face-recall system for criminal identification specifically developed for the Mexican population. It is a photographic database composed of Mexican facial traits to generate composite sketches. In this article, I examine Caramex and show that it works according to specific ideas of nation, mixture (mestizaje), …
Race and nutrition in the New World: Colonial shadows in the age of epigenetics
De qué me ves cara: Narrativas de herencia, genética e identidad inscritas en la apariencia
Los proyectos de antropología genética ofrecen explicar la historia evolutiva y migratoria de los grupos humanos y los individuos con base en sus características genéticas. Suelen dibujar genealogías que se narran en términos genéticos y que vinculan rasgos físicos con geografías e historias de origen. En este artículo presentamos los resultados del trabajo etnográfico y entrevistas realizadas a los participantes de un proyecto de antropología ge…
Facelessness
The face is an ordinary object hiding a profound complexity. We experience face-to-face encounters every day. Our immediate environment is full of smiley, needy, beautiful, and dangerous faces. The ubiquity of the phenomenon does not make it less fascinating. In Face Politics, Jenny Edkins, coming from the field of international politics—and with previous publications concerning missing persons, trauma, and more recently, landscapes of detention—…
Mestizo genomics
Race and nutrition in the New World: Colonial shadows in the age of epigenetics
The Face of the Mexican: Race, Nation, and Criminal Identification in Mexico
Various scientific techniques are used worldwide in contemporary criminal identification. Caramex, called the "Face of the Mexican," is a face-recall system for criminal identification specifically developed for the Mexican population. It is a photographic database composed of Mexican facial traits to generate composite sketches. In this article, I examine Caramex and show that it works according to specific ideas of nation, mixture (mestizaje), …
Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: Meeting the Challenge of Indigenous Expertise
Transdisciplinary research knits together knowledge from diverse epistemic communities in addressing social-environmental challenges, such as biodiversity loss, climate crises, food insecurity, and public health. This article reflects on the roles of philosophy of science in transdisciplinary research while focusing on Indigenous and other subjugated forms of knowledge. We offer a critical assessment of demarcationist approaches in philosophy of …
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a common statistical procedure. In forensics, it is used in facial recognition technologies and composite sketching systems. PCA is especially helpful in contexts with high facial diversity, which is often translated as racial diversity. In these settings, researchers use PCA to define a 'normal face' and organize the rest of the available facial diversity based on their resemblance to or difference from that…
The Problematic Use of Race in Facial Reconstruction
Facial reconstructions have gained importance in museum exhibitions and in forensic sciences in recent years. These objects aim to represent faces from the past and present to elicit recognition in the public. Even though the face is a highly individual object, its reconstruction depends on the application of a number of general categories. One of the most central is race. When reconstructing a face, experts carry out a particular way of seeing –…
Mestizo genomics
Facelessness
The face is an ordinary object hiding a profound complexity. We experience face-to-face encounters every day. Our immediate environment is full of smiley, needy, beautiful, and dangerous faces. The ubiquity of the phenomenon does not make it less fascinating. In Face Politics, Jenny Edkins, coming from the field of international politics—and with previous publications concerning missing persons, trauma, and more recently, landscapes of detention—…
De qué me ves cara: Narrativas de herencia, genética e identidad inscritas en la apariencia
Los proyectos de antropología genética ofrecen explicar la historia evolutiva y migratoria de los grupos humanos y los individuos con base en sus características genéticas. Suelen dibujar genealogías que se narran en términos genéticos y que vinculan rasgos físicos con geografías e historias de origen. En este artículo presentamos los resultados del trabajo etnográfico y entrevistas realizadas a los participantes de un proyecto de antropología ge…
Race and nutrition in the New World: Colonial shadows in the age of epigenetics
The Problematic Use of Race in Facial Reconstruction
Facial reconstructions have gained importance in museum exhibitions and in forensic sciences in recent years. These objects aim to represent faces from the past and present to elicit recognition in the public. Even though the face is a highly individual object, its reconstruction depends on the application of a number of general categories. One of the most central is race. When reconstructing a face, experts carry out a particular way of seeing –…
The Face of the Mexican: Race, Nation, and Criminal Identification in Mexico
Various scientific techniques are used worldwide in contemporary criminal identification. Caramex, called the "Face of the Mexican," is a face-recall system for criminal identification specifically developed for the Mexican population. It is a photographic database composed of Mexican facial traits to generate composite sketches. In this article, I examine Caramex and show that it works according to specific ideas of nation, mixture (mestizaje), …
Does the human microbiome tell us something about race
This paper critically discusses the increasing trend in human microbiome research to draw on the concept of race. This refers to the attempt to investigate the microbial profile of certain social and ethnic groups as embodied racial traits. Here, race is treated as a necessary category that helps in identifying and solving health challenges, like obesity and type-2 diabetes, in ‘western’ or indigenous populations with particular microbial charact…
Privacy in Social Media: A Perspective from the Logic of Care
Privacy loss is one of the primary issues associated with the use of social media or social network sites. These sites operate by collecting and sharing data from users to obtain economic revenue. As a solution, it is recommended that users be informed about safe online practices and that they should behave accordingly. However, this does not usually happen, which makes privacy regulations ineffective. We argue that a top-down, control-focused ap…
The Heredity Matrix: Genetics and the Understanding of Mestizaje , Health, and Belonging in Mexico
Empirical data gathered from group discussions with Mexican undergraduate students from different regions and backgrounds showed that students tend to incorporate information about genetics into their accounts of hereditary intergenerational transmission linked to issues of family resemblance, health, and mestizaje (racial admixture) in a nuanced, elaborated, and non-simplistic manner. Locality and cultural variations can define the ways heredita…
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a common statistical procedure. In forensics, it is used in facial recognition technologies and composite sketching systems. PCA is especially helpful in contexts with high facial diversity, which is often translated as racial diversity. In these settings, researchers use PCA to define a 'normal face' and organize the rest of the available facial diversity based on their resemblance to or difference from that…
Pluralist Ethnobiology: Between Philosophical Reflection and Transdisciplinary Action
In the introduction to this special issue on ethnobiology and philosophy, we consider how the included papers show that ethnobiology is an inherently pluralist project that has a unique potential to foster inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on issues such as the complex multispecies relations between humans and non-humans that one finds in livelihood practices such as farming and fishing, in conservation management, or in industrial resour…
Policing in Cryptoracial Societies: The Case of Mexico
Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science: Global Dialogues and New Directions for Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of science has been, and continues to be, dominated by European and North American voices. By convening more diverse voices from across the globe, both new and standing ontological, epistemological, and methodological issues may be addressed, which would certainly be beneficial for the field. The recently published Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science (Routledge), edited by David Ludwig, Inkeri Koskinen, Zinhle Mncube, Lua…
Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: Meeting the Challenge of Indigenous Expertise
Transdisciplinary research knits together knowledge from diverse epistemic communities in addressing social-environmental challenges, such as biodiversity loss, climate crises, food insecurity, and public health. This article reflects on the roles of philosophy of science in transdisciplinary research while focusing on Indigenous and other subjugated forms of knowledge. We offer a critical assessment of demarcationist approaches in philosophy of …
From Global to Local: Rethinking Population Descriptors in Biomedicine
Population descriptors (PDs) in biomedicine, like race and ethnicity, suffer from two problems. They introduce explanations with low proportionality, which fail to capture relevant causal relations; and their usage is motivated by a focus on global instead of local health issues. Both problems amount to, what we call, the ‘missing locality challenge’ of PDs leading to epistemic biases and stereotypes against local communities. We introduce a new …
Indigenous peoples and renewable energy: Impacts, contestations, and collective action
Although renewable energy (RE) transitions offer pathways to sustainability, their implementation often exacerbates existing injustices, particularly for indigenous communities. This paper examines indigenous peoples' complex and evolving relationship with RE transitions through a systematic review of 87 peer-reviewed articles. It identifies three key thematic areas:(1) the impacts of RE transitions on indigenous communities; (2) indigenous conte…
Sociology (10 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Social science (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works)