The Order of People : Contesting Bio-Scientific Human Classifications.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellebrecht, Nils.

Contributor:

Ellebrecht, Nils, editor.

Plümecke, Tino, editor.

Bartram, Isabelle, editor.

Lipphardt, Veronika, editor.

Reardon, Jenny, editor.

Zur Nieden, Andrea, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human genetics.

Race.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Bioscientific concepts of human diversity and politics of inequality have long been intertwined in efforts to order and classify people.The contributors to this volume critically examine the particular ways in which these concepts are constituted and applied across various national contexts and within different life science disciplines, including.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

The Order of People and the Promise of Post‑Racial Classifications

The Nature of Human Classifications in Socio‐Political Entanglements

The Limits of Social Constructivism

Postracial Racialization

Unearthing Infrastructural Logics

Contemporary Modalities of Continuing Human Classifications

Beyond Categories and Back Again

New Categroies but Old Meanings

Global Power and the Circulation of Standards

Postracial Performative Identifications and Subjectifications

References

From One to(o) Many

1. Introduction

2. Visual Technologies in the Criminal Justice System

3. Forensic DNA Phenotyping

4. Analytical Lens

5. Case Studies

5.1 Probably Chelsea

5.2 The Edmonton Police Service Case

6. Final Remarks

7. References

ANI versus ASI, or Aryans versus Dravidians?

Introduction

Racial Categories in an Old Debate

Troublesome Legacies in the Population Genetics of India

Making Up New Categories to Avoid the Trouble? Nationalizing "Ancestry"

Discussion and Conclusions

Who Is a Hunter‐Gatherer?

Hunter‐Gatherer Studies and Its Debates

Hunter‐Gatherers in Human Microbiome Research

Research on the Hunter‐Gatherer Microbiome

Hunter‐Gatherer Microbiome Research and Its Discontents

Conclusion

New Categories but Old Meanings

Ethnicity Disguised as Migration Background?

Migration, Ethnicity, and German Epidemiological Research

Materials and Methods

Results

Migration Background as an Administrative Technology of Difference

Ethnicity (Lurking) in the Background

The Blurring of Classifying Concepts

Inclusion or Integration?

Discussion

Biologies of Ethnicity

Introduction.

Lack of Research on the Concept of Ethnicity

Methods

Brief Overview of the Concept of Ethnicity

Ethnicity in the Social Sciences

Ethnicity in the Life Sciences

Ethnicity in the German Life Sciences

The Most Commonly Used Terms

Hardly Any Explanation of the Meaning of Ethnicity

No Differences Investigated or a Spectrum of Differences Found

Reasons Given for the Differences

Conclusions

Translation Matters

Historical Backgrounds

Method

Analysis

Scientific Articles

National R&amp

D Reports

Reconstructing Narratives

People of African Descent as a Population Descriptor in the Political Context and Meaning of Descent

Unraveling "African descent" in Politics: Understanding the Meaning and Usage of Ancestry Tests

Mapping Genomes through History

Cuba Meets Europe: The Making of a Medical Genetics Approach to Dengue

Genetic Ancestry: Reframing Natural History in Dengue Research

Mapping Ancestry: Tracing the Historical Temporalities and Geographies of Dengue Immunity

Evolutionary Theory and Naming Populations in Genetics

The Theoretical Framework: Situating Change in Time and Geography

Identifying Patterns and Tracing Connections

Ambivalence about Race

Methodology

Research Context

Findings

"There is no such thing as race"

A Standard Practice amid Silence

Conflating Ethnicity and Race

Race through Genetics

A Matter of Getting Used to It?

"Today and in the future, not using the term race should be part of scientific decency."

Method.

How Novices, Established Researchers, and Crossover Scientists Approach Racial Classifications

The Novices' Discontent with Race

Workaround Strategies

Loyalty and Voice

Race as a Diffuse Concept

3.2 Scientific Equanimity or A Matter of Getting Used to It? Racial Classifications as a Region‐Specific or Global Observation Schema

Race: A Global Human Classificatory Schema or a Regional Peculiarity?

The Caucasian Liver

Race as a Regional Concept

Race in the Lab: Research and Identity

Crossover Scientists: Science and Society

Rationalities of Scientific Responsibility

Discourse Limits instead of a Discourse Arena

Acknowledgements

Identifying the Asian Body

Ancestry Classification in Forensic Anthropology

Perpetuating Lack of Representation

Identity and Belonging in the Teaching of Forensic Anthropology

"Who Is the Most European of Us All?"

A Counterknowledge on Race and Genomics: An Alternative Truth about Racial Reality

The Main Features of This Counterknowledge

A Counterknowledge and Its Enemies

1. Emphasizing genetic diversity between human groups versus homogeneity of humankind

2. Proving that "race is a biological reality" and how former racial categories match genomic studies

3. Genetic barriers and genetic determinism

Beyond the Science and Ideology Divide

1. A counterknowledge that cannot be reduced to mere denial of science

2. A peculiar kind of participative knowledge

"Who Is the Most European of Us All?" European Genetic Identities and the Division of Whiteness

A shared sense of community? Europe as a common endangered homeland

Beyond Whiteness: building genetic frontiers and hierarchies within European identity.

The Social Life of European DNA: How New "Biosocialities" Incorporate Old Racial Identities

Negotiating biological identities online: a new biosociality?

"The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living."

Otherness in Focus

Visualizations in Science

An Overview of Scientific Visualizations in DNA Studies of Roma

Case Study: "Refining the South Asian Origin of the Romani People"

Contextualizing the Representations of Finland as a Population Isolate

Visual Representations in Genetics

Understanding Finns as a Population Isolate- How Was This Understanding Formed?

Selecting Finns for Research

Connecting Rare Diseases and Population Genetics

One, Two or More Than Two Populations

Discussion: Changing Representations of a Population Isolate

GenomeIndia

Science, Race, and Caste Discourse

Situating the GenomeIndia Project (GIP)

Catalog of Genetic Variation or Differences

Stitching Together Indian Reference Haplotype

Appendix

About the Authors.

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ISBN:

3-8394-7237-7

9783839472378

OCLC:

1564841684