Islands as Laboratories
Indigenous Knowledge and Gene Drives in the Pacific
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6067768 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Riley Taitingfong (0000-0003-0981-4783, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Biology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7143 • E-ISSN: 1534-6617 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/hub.2017.0068 |
| OpenAlex | W4297201206 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article argues that the genetic engineering technology known as gene drive must be evaluated in the context of the historic and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism and military experimentation on indigenous lands and peoples. After defijining gene drive and previewing some of the key ethical issues related to its use, the author compares the language used to justify Cold War–era nuclear testing in the Pacifijic with contemporary scholarship framing islands as ideal test sites for gene drive–modifijied organisms. In both cases, perceptions of islands as remote and isolated are mobilized to warrant their treatment as sites of experimentation for emerging technologies. Though gene drive may offfer valuable interventions into issues afffecting island communities (e.g., vector-borne disease and invasive species management), proposals to conduct the fijirst open trials of gene drive on islands are complicit in a long history of injustice that has treated islands (and their residents) as dispensable to the risks and unintended consequences associated with experimentation. This article contends that ethical gene drive research cannot be achieved without the inclusion of indigenous peoples as key stakeholders and provides three recommendations to guide community engagement involving indigenous communities: centering indigenous self-determination, replacing the defijicit model of engagement with a truly participatory model, and integrating indigenous knowledge and values in the research and decision-making processes related to gene drive
Biology · Business · Colonialism · Community engagement · Community-based participatory research · Environmental ethics · Gene · Gene drive · Indigenous · Participatory action research · Political science · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · Warrant · Anthropology · CRISPR and Genetic Engineering · Ecology · Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies · Genetically Modified Organisms Research · Genetics · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |