From cellular memory to the memory of trauma
Social epigenetics and its public circulation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3062076 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michel Dubois (0000-0001-6872-9525, CNRS – Sorbonne University, France, corresponding author), Catherine Guaspare (CNRS – Sorbonne University, France) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 144-183 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science Information (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0539018419897600 |
| OpenAlex | W2999648863 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 84 |
Trauma is associated with the appearance of the concept of 'accident' as a social and legal entity, as well as with the successive discoveries of surgery, psychiatrics, and psychoanalysis. Today, epigenetics has redefined trauma as an extreme form of social adversity. Because of the exceptional nature of the events studied and also the social and political significance of its results, the social epigenetics of historical trauma has received undeniable public success. The present article investigates the general dynamics of this research front, as well as the forms and consequences of its public circulation. We highlight the specificity of the circulation modes associated with social epigenetics and the myriad ways it has been used socially and politically. This study addresses four registers of action in particular: to attest, to repair, to intervene, and to treat. The social circulation of the epigenetics of trauma is as influenced by the public's willingness to see it as socially and politically relevant as it is by the ability of researchers to prepare this collective appropriation through different forms of public engagement. Finally this study allows us to refute the dichotomic conception of the genetics/epigenetics relationship, which is too frequently the foundation for making epigenetics academically acceptable in the social sciences
Appropriation · Biology · Cognitive science · Epigenetics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Epigenetics and DNA Methylation · Law · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society · Genetics
Moments of epistemic friction
Epigenetic science and Indigenous health
Ke ala i ka Mauliola
Moving subjects
Narrating novelty and reaffirming responsibilisation
Imperialism of the Mind
Refusing epigenetics
Early life, risk and blame
Inheritance at the Limits
Epigenetic citizenship and political claims-making
Towards the multileveled and processual conceptualisation of racialised individuals in biomedical research
Measuring’ Collective Trauma
New avenues in epigenetic research about race
From cellular memory to the memory of trauma
Advancing Indigenous Mental Health Research
The Politics of Trauma
Through the Camera's Eye
Social Epigenetics
Political Biology
Native American DNA
Backdoor to Eugenics
Trauma
The DNA Mystique
Gender Differences in the Historical Trauma Response Among the Lakota
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior
Persistent epigenetic differences associated with prenatal exposure to famine in humans
The Social Life of DNA
The Enzyme Theory and the Origin of Biochemistry
Governing Science
Misbehaving Science
Impressionable Biologies
Low birth weight of contemporary African Americans
Developmental plasticity in a biocultural context
Early life trauma, post‐traumatic stress disorder, and allostatic load in a sample of American Indian adults
Epigenetics and the embodiment of race
Plasticity and Programming
Scrutinizing the epigenetics revolution
Metaphors in search of a target
Epigenetic determinism in science and society
Historical trauma as public narrative
The Historical Trauma Response Among Natives and Its Relationship with Substance Abuse
The political implications of epigenetics
The Disciplinary Stake
Social epigenetics
The return to the sacred path
A biocultural study of the effects of maternal stress on mother and newborn health in the D emocratic R epublic of C ongo
The Harmony of Illusions
Historical Trauma in American Indian/Native Alaska Communities
"Living in "survival mode
Beyond diathesis stress
Social Epigenetics
The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society
From cellular memory to the memory of trauma
De la génétique à l'épigénétique
Cellules souches et technoscience
Rethinking Historical Trauma
The intergenerational effects of Indian Residential Schools
Redressing First Nations historical trauma
The trauma experienced by generations past having an effect in their descendants
From Social Structure to Gene Regulation, and Back
Early Environments, Stress, and the Epigenetics of Human Health
Anthropology, Indigeneity, and the Epigenome
Bodies Don't Just Tell Stories, They Tell Histories
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |