A Postapartheid Genome: Genetic Ancestry Testing and Belonging in South Africa (November 2016)
Foster, Laura A. (Author)
Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 41
Issue: 6
Pages: 1015-1036
Edition Details: Special Issue: Resisting Power, Retooling Justice: Promises of Feminist Postcolonial Technosciences
Language: English
This article examines a genetic ancestry testing program called the Living History Project (LHP) that was jointly organized by a nonprofit educational institute and a for-profit genealogy company in South Africa. It charts the precise mechanisms by which the LHP sought to shape a postapartheid genome through antiracist commitments aimed at contesting histories of colonial and apartheid rule in varied ways. In particular, it focuses on several tensions that emerged within three modes of material-discursive practice within the production of the LHP: subject recruitment, informed consent, and participant reflections. In the end, it argues that several contradictory tensions were central to the making of the LHP’s postapartheid genome and that it should be understood as nonracial rather than antiracist.
...MoreArticle Arne Pollock; Banu Subramaniam (November 2016) Introduction to Special Issue: Resisting Power, Retooling Justice: Promises of Feminist Postcolonial Technosciences. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 951-966).
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