1st Edition

Bioinformation Worlds and Futures

Edited By EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Silvia Posocco Copyright 2022
208 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book sets out to define and consolidate the field of bioinformation studies in its transnational and global dimensions, drawing on debates in science and technology studies, anthropology and sociology. It provides situated analyses of bioinformation journeys across domains and spheres of interpretation. As unprecedented amounts of data relating to biological processes and lives are... Read more

1 Bioinformation Worlds and Futures: An Introduction

EJ Gonzalez-Polledo and Silvia Posocco

2 All the Data Creatures

Tahani Nadim

3 Capturing Genomes: The Friction and Flow of Bioinformation at the Smithsonian

Adrian Van Allen

4 The Kinship of Bioinformation: Relations in an Evolving Archive

Resto Cruz, Penny Tinkler, and Laura Fenton

5 Bioinformation In Formation: Inventing Medical Devices in Contemporary India

Anisha Chadha

6 Top_to_toe.ods: Bioinformation and the Politics of Rape Response

Sylvia McKelvie

7 American Bioinformation and U.S. Race Politics: The Values of Diverse Genetic Data

Anna Jabloner

8 Global E-Waste Epidemiology and Emerging Politics of Bioinformatic Extraction

Peter Little

9 Seeing Like an Airport: towards Interoperability in Contemporary Security

Mark Maguire and Eileen Murphy

10 Surrender: (Bio)information in the Era of the Pandemic in South Korea

Kiheung Kim and Jongmi Kim

Afterword

Noah Tamarkin

Biography

EJ Gonzalez-Polledo teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. They are the author of Transitioning: Matter, Gender, Thought (Rowman and Littlefield international), and are currently developing research on global open biology movements and global histories of bioinformation.

Silvia Posocco is an anthropologist based at Birkbeck, University of London. Posocco is the author of Secrecy and Insurgency: Socialities and Knowledge Practices in Guatemala (2014). Current projects include research on the archives of transnational adoption in the aftermath of genocide as well as new collaborative work on global histories of bioinformation.