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Race, genomics and mestizaje (mixture) in Latin America: a comparative approach

Grant reference: RES-062-23-1914

Conference paper/presentation details

Title Postcolonial biopolitics and biocolonialism : governance and the protection of ‘genetic identities’ in Mexico and Colombia

Description The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to compare two case studies - Mexico and Colombia - in which the protection of ‘genetic identities’ have generated political and legal systems designed to avoid the unlawful appropriation of biological material and/or DNA in Latin America; and second, to interrogate the common biocolonial tropes and imaginations on which these particular postcolonial projects were articulated. Finally, I propose new modes of governance different from those based on genetic reification.

Url http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/egenis/conference2012/programme/

Language English

Primary contributor

Author Ernesto Schwartz Marin

Additional details

Date of publication 23 April 2012

Conference event title ESRC Genomics Network conference : genomics in society : facts, fictions and cultures

Conference location London

Conference date 23 April 2012