Comparing genomic narratives of human diversity in Latin American nations

Wade, Peter

doi:10.1080/01419870.2018.1409901

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“…5Following the Human Genome Project, several countries have generated genetic databases of their populations (for example, Silva-Zolezzi et al 2009; Gudbjartsson et al 2015), and though the main motivations for these projects are to develop targeted medical solutions, the justifications for them reinforce the separation between populations living within political borders. As an example, projects of Mestizo genomics in Mexico and Brazil have been criticized for reinforcing national identities and a strong Mestizo/Indigenous dichotomy (Wade 2017). …”

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Uprooting Narratives: Legacies of Colonialism in the Neoliberal University

Bowman

Rebolleda‐Gómez

2020

Hypatia

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Two intertwined stories evince the influence of colonialism on Western universities. The first story centers on a conflict about wild rice research between the Anishinaabe people and the University of Minnesota. Underlying this conflict is a genetic notion of biological identity that facilitates the commodification of wild rice. This notion of identity is inextricably linked to agricultural control and expansion. The second story addresses the foundation of Western universities on the goals of civilization and capitalist productivity. These norms persist even in diversity efforts through a focus on individualized notions of difference rather than socially contextualized and politically significant identities. The tendency to produce both knowledge and knowers as commodities results in the alienation, individuation, and abstraction of objects of research and researchers themselves. Decolonial change demands that we learn the specific histories of our universities and disciplines, break disciplinary boundaries, and contest commodification in knowledge production.

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Uprooting Narratives: Legacies of Colonialism in the Neoliberal University

Bowman

Rebolleda‐Gómez

2020

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Genetic syncretism: Latin American forensics and global indigenous organizing

Smith

García‐Deister

2021

BioSocieties

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In the 1970s, Latin America became a global laboratory for military interventions, the cultivation of terror, and ideological and economic transformation. In response, family groups and young scientists forged a new activist forensics focused on human rights, victim-centered justice, and state accountability, inaugurating new forms of forensic practice. We examine how this new form of forensic practice centered in forensic genetics has led to a critical engagement with Indigeneity both within and outside the lab. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with human rights activists and forensic scientists in Argentina, Guatemala and Mexico, this paper examines the relationship between forensic genetics, Indigenous organizing, and human rights practice. We offer the concept of ‘genetic syncretism’ to attend to spaces where multiple and competing beliefs about genetics, justice, and Indigenous identity are worked out through (1) coming together in care, (2) incorporation, and (3) ritual. Helping to unpack the uneasy and incomplete alliance of Indigenous interests and forensic genetic practice in Latin American, genetic syncretism offers a theoretical lens that is attentive to how differentials of power embedded in colonial logics and scientific practice are brokered through the coming together of seemingly incompatible beliefs and practices.

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