Dear colleague,
<br>
<br>We would like to invite you to submit proposals for papers to our
<br>panel at EASST
<br>2018: Meetings - Making Science, Technology and Society Together
<br>, 25-28th July 2018, Lancaster University,
<br>UK, entitled *Genetic technologies: Intersecting criminal investigation,
<br>disaster victim identification and commercial uses*.
<br>
<br>You might find more information below or here
<br>.
<br>
<br>The call for submissions closes 14 February 2018.
<br>
<br>We are looking forward for your proposals.
<br>
<br>Best regards,
<br>
<br>Rafaela and Victor
<br>
<br>*(C01) Genetic technologies: Intersecting criminal investigation, disaster
<br>victim identification and commercial uses *
<br>
<br>*Short abstract*
<br>
<br>We aim to explore the intersections between the use of genetic technologies
<br>in criminal investigation, disaster victim identification and commercial
<br>uses. Our goal is to stimulate a debate on the mutable social, political
<br>and commercial meanings attributed to genetic technologies.
<br>
<br>
<br>*Long abstract*
<br>Genetic technologies are playing a pivotal role about identity, how someone
<br>may look or where someone originate from. Such applications have been
<br>deployed in inter alia practices of disaster victim identification,
<br>criminal investigation and in commercial genealogy testing. Despite the
<br>similarity of deployed genetic technologies in these three domains, so far,
<br>their implications have been framed differently.
<br>
<br>The current academic debate on the use of genetic technologies in the field
<br>of criminal identification tends to emphasize the risks of disproportionate
<br>citizens’ surveillance, and threats to privacy and presumption of
<br>innocence. The uses of genetic technologies in disaster victim
<br>identification tends to be associated with a humanitarian rationale and a
<br>form of respecting and honouring victims and their families’ rights to
<br>‘know the truth’. Lastly, commercial genealogy testing has been framed
<br>within a ‘economy of hope’ that allegedly allows to ‘find your
<br>roots’.
<br>
<br>In this panel we welcome contributions that draw on diverse case studies to
<br>critically engage with the mutable social, political and commercial
<br>meanings attributed to genetic technologies in these three domains of
<br>practice. Our aims are twofold: first, to scrutinize the development,
<br>stabilization and politicization of genetic technologies in particular case
<br>scenarios; secondly, to critically discuss the values and infrastructures
<br>they carry.
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<br>o How is expertise constructed and assembled in daily practices?
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<br>o What are the moral economies and commercial interests played out?
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<br>o How and what can we learn by juxtaposing the practices?
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<br>o What is made (in)visible?
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<br>o How is power embedded in those practices?
<br>
<br>*Rafaela Granja, PhD*
<br>Post-Doctoral Researcher/Investigadora em Pós-doutoramento
<br>Project EXCHANGE (2015-2020), funded by the European Research Council
<br>(Grant agreement 648608)
<br>exchange.ics.uminho.pt
<br>
<br>Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) | University of Minho,
<br>Portugal
<br>CV available here
<br> and
<br>here
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