Bliss, Catherine Anne (Author)
New School University
Lee, Orville
Edition Details: Advisor: Lee, Orville
Physical Details: 378 pp.
Language: English
***** This dissertation explores the recent resurgence of racial science in the field of genomics. It asks: why is race once again the topic of intense biological debate? How is the resurgence related to knowledge processes affecting all of society? Can the sociology of knowledge help to explain the relationship between hegemonic beliefs and values and immediate scientific discourse and practice around race? Using Foucault's theory of social problematization, I analyze genomics's racial debate as a discursive formation that establishes an object of biological inquiry where one did not exist and sets a limit of possibilities of how race is understood, enacted, and embodied. Because racial knowledge production is also a practical matter, I use Bourdieu's sociology of knowledge to elicit the cognitive frames that shape genomics's racial scientific practice. I augment these analyses with detail of genomics's normative structures and its drive to participate in broader social racial deliberation. I draw on discourse analysis of over seven hundred debate articles, participant observation in a national laboratory, forty-eight lengthy interviews with genomics's professional elite, and countless other informal interviews. Analysis of all genomic discourse on race shows that scientists across the field test and retest the biological validity of race with each arising technology and genomic marker framework. Interview data similarly demonstrate the enduring ambiguity, ambivalence, and overt conflict over race in genomics, as practical demands of the science and common sense racial notions intersect in nuanced ways. Analysis of the field's practice further shows that the field is proactively engaged in social research, ethical disputes, and policy analysis around race. Finally, policy paradigms generated by the state, meso-level health organizations, industry, and the public are shown to influence genomic racial knowledge production. This analysis demonstrates the ways commonsense ideas, norms, and values around race shape scientific knowledge production about race. ***** References ***** * References (687) *****
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 70/05 (2009). Pub. no. AAT 3355132.
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