INTRODUCTION: Ideas in Motion: Making Sense of Identity Politics and the New Genetics

Contemporary politics of identity are often marked by a high level of emotional and political commitment on the part of the actors involved, and they remain a site of continuous contestation. Not only are they influenced by various historical ‘presences’, to borrow a phrase from Stuart Hall (1990),...

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Hauptverfasser:	Katharina Schramm, David Skinner, Richard Rottenburg
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acids Ancestry Anthropology Behavioral sciences Biological sciences Biology Chemical compounds Chemicals Chemistry Criminal investigation DNA Ethnicity Ethnology Forensic genetics Forensic medicine Forensic sciences Genealogy Genetics Genomics Government Government services Group identity Historical methodology Historiography History Human genetics Identity politics Law enforcement Law enforcement procedures Medical genetics Nucleic acids Personality psychology Physical sciences Political identity Political science Political sociology Prejudices Psychological attitudes Psychology Racism Social psychology
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Zusammenfassung:	Contemporary politics of identity are often marked by a high level of emotional and political commitment on the part of the actors involved, and they remain a site of continuous contestation. Not only are they influenced by various historical ‘presences’, to borrow a phrase from Stuart Hall (1990), or by their respective social, economic or religious intersections, they are also inspired by developments in the life sciences. The sequencing of the human genome has been a decisive step in this direction, propelling old nature/nurture debates into a new terrain. How genetic, environmental and social factors interact in the production of