Identity Politics and the New Genetics

Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging

Bibliographic Data

ID2146418
AuthorsKate Reed (0000-0003-0815-1973)
Year2013
Volume36
Issue3
Pages517-518
Publication date2013-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2012.734393
OpenAlexW2054926410
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited2

Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular importance is the preoccupation with origins and personal discovery and the increasing use of racial and ethnic categories in social policy. This new genetic knowledge, expressed in technology and practice, has the potential to disrupt how race and ethnicity are debated, managed and lived. The contributors include medical researchers, anthropologists, historians of science and sociologists of race relations; together, they explore the new and challenging landscape where biology becomes the stuff of identity

Aesthetics · Biology · Ethnic group · Genealogy · Identity (music · Identity politics · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Genetics · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society

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