Genetic kinship

Nash, Catherine

doi:10.1080/0950238042000181593

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“…Here one of the obstacles to constructing a 'usable past' is the complexity of the results themselves, particularly when they are presented in a relatively unmediated form. As Catherine Nash (2004Nash ( , 2015 has eloquently argued, the very idea of 'genetic kinship' is a highly unstable notion that requires enormous situated cultural 'work' to offer any meaning. It does not provide ready-made narratives for participants, and may in fact do precisely the reverse by destabilising existing narratives of past origins.…”

Section: Motherland: a Genetic Journeymentioning

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Becoming a Viking: DNA testing, genetic ancestry and placeholder identity

Scully

Brown

King

2015

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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A consensus has developed among social and biological scientists around the problematic nature of genetic ancestry testing, specifically that its popularity will lead to greater genetic essentialism in social identities. Many of these arguments assume a relatively uncritical engagement with DNA, under 'high-stakes' conditions. We suggest that in a biosocial society, more pervasive 'low-stakes' engagement is more likely. Through qualitative interviews with participants in a study of the genetic legacy of the Vikings in Northern England, we investigate how genetic ancestry results are discursively worked through. The identities formed in 'becoming a Viking' through DNA are characterised by fluidity and reflexivity, rather than essentialism. DNA results are woven into a wider narrative of selfhood relating to the past, the value of which lies in its potential to be passed on within families. While not unproblematic, the relatively banal nature of such narratives within contemporary society is characteristic of the 'biosociable'.

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Section: Motherland: a Genetic Journeymentioning

confidence: 99%

Becoming a Viking: DNA testing, genetic ancestry and placeholder identity

Scully

Brown

King

2015

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…They contend that recent genetic research has "revived the idea of racial categories as proxies for biological differences". Similarly, Nash (2004) charges that when scientists merely declare that racial categories are not genetically coded but socially constituted, they sidestep their duty to warn when it comes to the misuses and abuses of genetic genealogy. Smart et al (2012, p. 49) assert that "racialization is not simply a 'problematic outcome' of biomedical science but also appears to play a significant role in shaping the very contours of the subject which scientists are struggling to better comprehend".…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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When Markers Meet Marketing: Ethnicity, Race, Hybridity, and Kinship in Genetic Genealogy Television Advertising

Scodari

2017

Genealogy

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Abstract:The essay explores issues pertaining to genetics vs. culture in understandings of kinship, hybridity as a disruptor of essentialist conceptions of race, the fetishization of ethnicity and culture, racist misuses of genetic science, processes of racialization, and counter-hegemonic resistance. Thirtyand sixty-second television advertisements airing in the U.S. from the 23andMe and AncestryDNA genetic genealogy testing services are analyzed in this context. The investigation demonstrates that genetic ancestry testing providers are well aware that their enterprise is premised on belief in the superiority of biological kinship and that hybridity is mobilized primarily as a marketing opportunity with ethnic components signified in shorthand by fetishized objects. Moreover, the categories of race and ethnicity presented in the ads give cover to racist abusers of genetic science, as the ads are consistent with socially constructed racial classifications. While maintaining this consistency, the categories are subject to adjustment based on the expectations of consumers. Resistance is possible in the use of genetic ancestry by descendants of African slaves to make localized connections to Africa, something that conventional genealogy seldom provides.

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“…Sinds de jaren tachtig is er in Nederland sprake van toenemende aandacht voor identiteit en identiteitsbesef (Frijhoff 1992 Scully et al 2013;Nash 2004Nash , 2013. Deze biologisering van identiteitsvraagstukken vindt plaats binnen diverse terreinen, variërend van de medische praktijk en biomedisch onderzoek, gedragsgenetica en forensische opsporing tot populatiegenetica, genealogie en archeologie.…”

Section: Inleiding: Genetica In De Stadunclassified

Tijdspraktijken: DNA en de on/onderbroken stad

Rooij¹,

M’charek²,

Reekum³

2014

Sociologie

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DNA is niet meer weg te denken uit het dagelijks leven. Het speelt een steeds groter wordende rol in medische en wetenschappelijke praktijken en figureert daarnaast steeds vaker als technologie om de identiteit van individuen of populaties te kennen. De laatste jaren zien we tevens dat DNA betrokken raakt bij de vorming van stadsidentiteiten.Dit artikel bestudeert een opmerkelijke samenwerking tussen genetici, archeologen en een stadsarchivaris en analyseert hoe de identiteit van de stad Vlaardingen opnieuw vorm krijgt. We volgen de zoektocht naar de ‘oer-Vlaardinger’ en onderzoeken de wijze waarop een DNA-match zowel een afstand van duizend jaar tenietdoet als een chronologische temporaliteit tot stand brengt. DNA helpt de tijd te vouwen en te ontvouwen.Door DNA te situeren en te volgen in specifieke praktijken wordt zichtbaar dat DNA hier niet zo zeer figureert als een biologische essentie, maar eerder als een technologie om temporele afstand en nabijheid te creëren. We laten daarmee zien dat identiteiten geen inherente essentie of kern hebben maar relationeel en door technologie bemiddeld zijn.

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Genetic kinship

Cited by 106 publications

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Becoming a Viking: DNA testing, genetic ancestry and placeholder identity

Becoming a Viking: DNA testing, genetic ancestry and placeholder identity

When Markers Meet Marketing: Ethnicity, Race, Hybridity, and Kinship in Genetic Genealogy Television Advertising

Tijdspraktijken: DNA en de on/onderbroken stad

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