Title Forensic colonialism : genetics and the capture of Indigenous peoples / Mark Munsterhjelm

Published Montreal ; Chicago : McGill Queen's University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 420 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Cover -- Forensic Colonialism-- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations and Glossary -- Introduction: Assemblages of Capture -- 1 "Kidd Lab Genehunter Center" -- 2 Judicial Review, Not Peer Review: The Karitiana and Surui in the DNA Wars -- 3 Hunting Diverse Humans after 9/11 -- 4 Testing Ancestry SNPs on Uyghurs and Other Turkic Peoples in Xinjiang -- 5 Chinese Patents and Applications -- 6 The VisiGen Consortium -- 7 Phenotyping Uyghurs in Shanghai -- 8 Securing Europe and China 9 Convergence: The Partner Institute, the Beijing Institute of Genomics, and the Institute of Forensic Science -- 10 The Tumxuk Uyghurs -- 11 Destabilizing Research Assemblages -- Conclusion: Indigenous Peoples in Racializing Security Assemblages -- Notes -- References -- Index Summary "Forensic genetic technologies are popularly conceptualized and revered as important tools of justice. The research and development of these technologies, however, has been accomplished through the capture of various Indigenous Peoples' genetic material, and a subsequent ongoing genetic servitude. In Forensic Colonialism, Mark Munsterhjelm explores how controversial studies of Indigenous Peoples have been used to develop racializing forensic technologies. Based on moral and political claims of defending the public from criminals and terrorists, international networks of scientists, police, and security agencies have developed forensic genetic technologies firmly embedded in hierarchies that target and exploit many Indigenous Peoples without their consent. Collections began under the guise of the highly controversial Human Genome Diversity Project and related efforts, including the 1987 sampling of Brazilian Indigenous Peoples as they recovered from near genocide. After 9/11, War on Terror rhetoric began to be used to justify research on ancestry estimation and physical appearance (phenotyping) markers, and since 2019, international research cooperation networks' use of thousands of Uyghurs and other Indigenous Peoples from Xinjiang and Tibet has contributed to a series of international controversies. Munsterhjelm concludes that technologies produced by forensic genetics only advance the biopolitical security of privileged populations, and that this depends on imposing race-based divisions between who lives and who dies. Meticulously researched, Forensic Colonialism adds to growing debates over racial categories and their roots in colonialism, and the political hierarchies inherent to forensic genetics."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 11, 2023) Subject Human genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects. Human genetics -- Social aspects Forensic genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects Forensic genetics -- Social aspects Human gene mapping -- Moral and ethical aspects Human gene mapping -- Social aspects Indigenous peoples -- Medical examinations -- Moral and ethical aspects Imperialism and science. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics. Human gene mapping -- Moral and ethical aspects Human gene mapping -- Social aspects Human genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects Human genetics -- Social aspects Imperialism and science Form Electronic book ISBN 9780228018155 0228018153

Other Titles Genetics and the capture of Indigenous peoples

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