Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood

Rowland, Allison L.

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“…extraction, which reduce post/colonized subjects to resources instrumental to the expansion of scientific knowledge (Benezra 2020;Nieves Delgado and Baedke 2021;Rowland 2020). Whether in terms of the resurgence of bio-fixed uses of race or the haunting of racial categories through the animal-culture (wild-domesticated) dualism of civilizational logics, in these two sections, I have illustrated how critical scholars argue that microbiome science has a tendency to amplify reactionary notions of race.…”

Section: Racism 2: Civilizational Ghostsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2014) and the popular work of microbiome evangelist Jeff Leach. Leach has been particularly noted for both his egregious depictions and engagements with the Hadza (Rowland 2020). Quoting Leach's description of the Hadza as a "free living population that is still intimately connected with nature," rhetoric studies scholar Allison Rowland explains how Leach exemplifies this racial imaginary (2020, 62).…”

Section: Racism 2: Civilizational Ghostsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Critical scholars in the social sciences and humanities have engaged the proliferation of microbiome science in terms of three notable themes: plasticity of body-environment relations, the inseparability of biology and society, and the agency of the non-human (Beck 2019;Benezra 2020Benezra , 2022Benezra et al 2012;Chellappoo and Baedke 2023;De Wolfe et al 2021;Fishel 2017;Haraway 2008;Helmreich 2014;Hird 2009;Houf 2019;Maroney 2017;Nieves Delgado and Baedke 2021;Lorimer 2016Lorimer , 2017Lorimer , 2020Paxson 2008Paxson , 2014Paxson and Helmreich 2014;Rowland 2020;Stallins et al 2018). However, only a small subset of literature addresses race and racism directly.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Anti-racism, racism, and the microbiome: A review

Rawson

2024

Progress in Environmental Geography

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Debates about the relationship between racism, anti-racism, and the new life sciences calls for further inquiry into the growing popularity of microbiome science. Scientists define human microbiomes as unique communities of microorganisms that vary across body-sites, lifespan, location, and lifestyle. As new biomarkers for human diversity, scientists argue that microbiomes environmentally mediate development and health, which also reframes classical models of disease. In the small subset of literature that engages the stakes for race, the implications of human microbiome science are posed in terms of paradoxically reifying racism and empowering anti-racist science. To illustrate this duality, I first review the two most pervasive critiques of explicitly and implicitly reproducing racial categories in human microbiome science. Then, I show how some of the same critics embrace other versions of microbiome science as a tool to fight for environmental justice and de-essentialize race. However, in the next section, I challenge this distinction by arguing that even the most promising aspect of microbiome science as biosocial “becoming” can reproduce racial hierarchies too. In sketching limits in the current literature, I conclude by suggesting that critical engagements with biosocial formations of race need to further examine the relational formation of whiteness and that such inquiry requires elevating Black and Indigenous scholars.

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Section: Racism 2: Civilizational Ghostsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Racism 2: Civilizational Ghostsmentioning

confidence: 99%