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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.

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.