Population Genetics and Belonging: A Cultural Analysis of Genetic Ancestry

by Venla Oikkonen

Book Overview

This book explores how human population genetics has emerged as a means of imagining and enacting belonging in contemporary society. Venla Oikkonen approaches population genetics as an evolving set of technological, material, narrative and affective practices, arguing that these practices are engaged in multiple forms of belonging that are often mutually contradictory. Considering scientific, popular and fictional texts, with several carefully selected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319874187
• ISBN13: 9783319874180
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"