Building the genomic nation: 'Homo Brasilis' and the 'Genoma Mexicano' in comparative cultural perspective.
Building the genomic nation: 'Homo Brasilis' and the 'Genoma Mexicano' in comparative cultural perspective.
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DOI：
10.1177/0306312715611262
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发表时间：
2015-12
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3
通讯作者：
Wade P
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作者：
Kent M;García-Deister V;López-Beltrán C;Santos RV;Schwartz-Marín E;Wade P
本文探讨了拉丁美洲基因研究、民族主义和集体社会身份建构之间的关系。它对两个研究项目——“墨西哥基因组”和“巴西人”——进行了比较分析，这两个项目都试图建立国家和基因图谱。两者都再现并强化了各自焦点国家的理念，将生物元素纳入有关社会身份的辩论中。此外，两者都将混血儿/混血儿的统一形象置于国家身份建构的核心，并以此取代了其他身份类别，例如基于种族的身份类别。然而，由于这些项目是在不同的国家背景下开发的，因此具有不同的科学和社会轨迹：在墨西哥，基因组混血者的动员主要与健康有关，而在巴西，关键领域是种族领域。我们展示了国家作为在公共政策辩论中调动基因数据的框架的重要性，并展示了种族如何在不同的拉丁美洲国家基因组研究背景下出现和消失，同时又从未完全消失。
This article explores the relationship between genetic research, nationalism and the construction of collective social identities in Latin America. It makes a comparative analysis of two research projects – the ‘Genoma Mexicano’ and the ‘Homo Brasilis’ – both of which sought to establish national and genetic profiles. Both have reproduced and strengthened the idea of their respective nations of focus, incorporating biological elements into debates on social identities. Also, both have placed the unifying figure of the mestizo/mestiço at the heart of national identity constructions, and in so doing have displaced alternative identity categories, such as those based on race. However, having been developed in different national contexts, these projects have had distinct scientific and social trajectories: in Mexico, the genomic mestizo is mobilized mainly in relation to health, while in Brazil the key arena is that of race. We show the importance of the nation as a frame for mobilizing genetic data in public policy debates, and demonstrate how race comes in and out of focus in different Latin American national contexts of genomic research, while never completely disappearing.