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Hosted by the Department of Sociology
The Social Life of DNA: racial reconciliation
and institutional morality
British Journal of Sociology Annual Lecture 2017
Professor Alondra Nelson
President, Social Science Research Council
Professor Nigel Dodd
Chair, LSE
Thursday 26 October, 6.30-8pm, OLD THEATRE, OLD BUILDING
No Ticket Required
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The Social Life of DNA:
Racial Reconciliation and Institutional Morality
Alondra Nelson Columbia University
Social Science Research Council
2017 British Journal of Sociology Lecture
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the social life of things Appadurai 1988
it is by following “the social life of things,” “things-in-motion” that we are able to “illuminate
their human and social context”
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“account for the social
dimensions of new biomedical
technologies” through thick description and
“following around”
the social life of PGD Franklin and Roberts 2006
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the social life of money Dodd 2014
a process, not a thing…value
derives from the dynamic, ever-changing, and often
contested social relations that sustain its circulation
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the social life of DNA
“spillover” between sites of genetic analysis, from genealogical uses to other domains (e.g., forensic or medical) and back again
multiple uses to which one type of genetic analysis is put (e.g., genetic ancestry testing)
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Venture Smith
(1729-1805)
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reconciliation projects
sites and practices in which genetic analysis is put to the task of resolving controversies or answering questions about the past (e.g. La
Asociación Civil Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo)
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Mary-Claire King; Grandmothers of the May Plaza (La Asociación Civil Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo)
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reconciliation projects
e.g., resolution of the injuries produced by racial slavery is sought through the
employ of genetic analysis
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From the African Burial Ground Project
African Ancestry, Inc.
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African Ancestry, Inc.
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the “sara”: a reconciliation project
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Deadria Farmer-Paellmann
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Farmer-Paellmann v. FleetBoston (2002)
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January 2004 dismissal:
“[the Plaintiffs cannot establish a personal injury sufficient to confer standing by merely alleging
some genealogical relationship to African-Americans held in slavery over one-hundred, two-
hundred, or three-hundred years ago.”
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Outside the U.S. Court of Appeals (Chicago)
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March 2005 dismissal:
“Genetic mapping, or DNA testing, …alone is insufficient to provide a decisive link to a homeland.“
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The New Yorker
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“This is not a disembodied group of people, who are nameless and faceless…These are real people with real names and real descendants.” –Richard Cellini in The New York Times
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Seeking the GU 272 Judy Riffel Patricia Bayonne-Johnson
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Earlene Campbell-Coleman, great-great-great grand-daughter of Frank Campbell
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Liturgy of “remembrance, contrition and hope”
Washington Post
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moral institutions and institutional morality
Moral economies… are connected in the daily activities of institutions through the values and affects which crystallize around social issues and the responses that are given in concrete situations -At the Heart of the State, Didier Fassin
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