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<b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: left; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Abstract:</b><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "> </span></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; ">In this talk I consider the impact and meaning of ‘genomic sovereignty’ as an emergent science policy frame in postcolonial contexts. I identify three strands in the organization of this policy arena: the International Haplotype Mapping Project as a model and foil for postcolonial genomics; a public health genomics field which stands in contrast to Western pursuits of personalized medicine; and Big Pharma's increased focus on ethnic drug markets. I conceptualize postcolonial genomics as a nationalist project with competing tendencies: unifying and differentiating a diverse body politic; cultivating scientific and commercial autonomy; and dependence upon global knowledge networks and foreign capital. I suggest that the ‘strategic calibration’ of socio-political and genetic taxonomies creates two interrelated challenges -- </span></font>dilemmas of mapping and marketing -- for actors in this field.</div>
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<br></div><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Biography</b><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; ">: </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Ruha Benjamin received her PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley (2008), and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA’s Center for Society & Genetics (2010). Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of science, medicine, and biotechnology; history and social studies of race and gender; science policy, public health, and critical social theory. She is currently completing a book, <i>People’s Science</i>, which examines ethnoracial, gender, class, and disability politics as a constitutive feature of stem cell research. Drawn from this larger project, "Organized Ambivalence: When Sickle Cell Disease and Stem Cell Research Converge" is forthcoming in the journal Ethnicity & Health later this year. She has also recently started a second project that examines the geneticization of populations in three countries (India, Mexico, and South Africa), and which forms the basis for this STS Circle talk.</span></font></div>
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