Narrative in the Age of the Genome

SCIENCE/Fiction: Modular Template for Class Design

“…Science fiction has captivated many cultures and impressive works have been produced around the globe. For an overview of the evolution of science fiction, see (14)(15)(16)). An artistic graphic from Ward Shelley is available (17).…”

Global genetic fictions

“…As Choksey points out, one preoccupation of '[n]arrative in the age of the genome' is tracing how twenty-first century genomics positions human beings variously 'as producer-consumers of data in the Global North or as peripheral and precarious manufacturers of technologies for interpreting these data in the Global South'. 12 As several articles in this issue discuss, marketing for direct-to-consumer genetic ancestry testing has targeted Black and Indigenous communities whose ancestry or kinship ties may have been severed by the violence of slavery and settler colonialism. 13 And major population genetics projects, which rely on the 'distinctive' genetic 'data' of Indigenous communities to trace human evolution, genetic diversity and histories of migration, have been censured for adopting ideological rationales and extractive methods of data collection that amount to contemporary forms of 'biocolonialism'.…”