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Antígona y su biobanco de ADN: Desaparecidos, búsqueda y tecnologías forenses en México. = Antigone's forensic DNA database: Forensic technologies and the search for the disappeared in Mexico (2018)
Journal Article
Schwartz-Marin, E., & Cruz-Santiago, A. (2018). Antígona y su biobanco de ADN: Desaparecidos, búsqueda y tecnologías forenses en México. = Antigone's forensic DNA database: Forensic technologies and the search for the disappeared in Mexico. Athenea Digital, 18(1), 129-153. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.2260

La tragedia de Antígona ha sido apropiada estética y políticamente por artistas y activistas en México para discutir la búsqueda de personas desaparecidas. Reflexionando sobre las relaciones entre la futilidad, las tecnologías forenses y la noción de... Read More about Antígona y su biobanco de ADN: Desaparecidos, búsqueda y tecnologías forenses en México. = Antigone's forensic DNA database: Forensic technologies and the search for the disappeared in Mexico.

Forensic civism: articulating science, DNA and kinship in contemporary Mexico and Colombia (2016)
Journal Article
Schwartz-Marin, E., & Cruz-Santiago, A. (2016). Forensic civism: articulating science, DNA and kinship in contemporary Mexico and Colombia. Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2(1), 58-74. https://doi.org/10.7227/hrv.2.1.5

The article will present the findings of ethnographic research into the Colombian and Mexican forensic systems, introducing the first citizen-led exhumation project made possible through the cooperation of scholars, forensic specialists and intereste... Read More about Forensic civism: articulating science, DNA and kinship in contemporary Mexico and Colombia.

Explaining the visible and the invisible: ancestry, appearance, race and genetics in Colombia (2015)
Journal Article
Schwartz-Marin, E., & Wade, P. (2015). Explaining the visible and the invisible: ancestry, appearance, race and genetics in Colombia. Social Studies of Science, 45(6), 886-906. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312715621182

Using data from focus groups conducted in Colombia, we explore how educated lay audiences faced with scenarios about ancestry and genetics draw on widespread and dominant notions of nation, race and belonging in Colombia to ascribe ancestry to collec... Read More about Explaining the visible and the invisible: ancestry, appearance, race and genetics in Colombia.

Colombian forensic genetics as a form of public science: The role of race, nation and common sense in the stabilization of DNA populations (2015)
Journal Article
Schwartz-Marín, E., Wade, P., Cruz-Santiago, A., & Cárdenas, R. (2015). Colombian forensic genetics as a form of public science: The role of race, nation and common sense in the stabilization of DNA populations. Social Studies of Science, 45(6), 862-885. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312715574158

This article examines the role that vernacular notions of racialized-regional difference play in the constitution and stabilization of DNA populations in Colombian forensic science, in what we frame as a process of public science. In public science,... Read More about Colombian forensic genetics as a form of public science: The role of race, nation and common sense in the stabilization of DNA populations.

Building the genomic nation: ‘Homo Brasilis’ and the ‘Genoma Mexicano’ in comparative cultural perspective (2015)
Journal Article
Kent, M., Garcia- Deister, V., Ventura-Santos, R., Lopez-Beltran, C., Schwartz-Marin, E., & Wade, P. (2015). Building the genomic nation: ‘Homo Brasilis’ and the ‘Genoma Mexicano’ in comparative cultural perspective. Social Studies of Science, 45(6), 839-861. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312715611262

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 Brasili... Read More about Building the genomic nation: ‘Homo Brasilis’ and the ‘Genoma Mexicano’ in comparative cultural perspective.

Biocoloniality, governance, and the protection of ‘genetic identities’ in Mexico and Colombia (2013)
Journal Article
Schwartz-Marín, E., & Restrepo, E. (2013). Biocoloniality, governance, and the protection of ‘genetic identities’ in Mexico and Colombia. Sociology, 47(5), 993-1010. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038513494506

In this article two case studies are compared, Mexico and Colombia, in which the protection of ‘genetic identities’ has generated political and legal systems designed to avoid the unlawful appropriation of biological material and/or DNA in Latin Amer... Read More about Biocoloniality, governance, and the protection of ‘genetic identities’ in Mexico and Colombia.