Identity, Belonging, and the BioPolitics of DNA in Colonial Modernity

Описание: This session will explore the ways in which genetic and material claims to identity are constructed within colonial modernity, where a biopolitic oriented to colonial structures of power influences who gets studied, what histories are relevant, who owns history, which bodies count, and where they belong. Panelists will also destabilize these historical dynamics by troubling genetic claims to identity and highlighting emerging work that reorients conventional power relations among the various stakeholders in genetic research. Furthermore, panelists will present and explore alternate, decolonized means of producing genetic science and situate these emerging genetic ontologies alongside non-scientific productions of identity and belonging. This panel will bring together diverse perspectives from genetics, anthropology, sociology, medicine, and law to explore how the material/semiotic power of DNA is deployed within the processes of political subject formation, and how genomics intersects with identity politics in colonial modernity. We will explore how DNA is entangled with discourses of survival and extinction, power and powerlessness, estrangement and familiarization, dis/placement, and appropriation, and will consider the role of scientific discourse and silence in constituting and negotiating identities.

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