Appropriation, Adaptation, and Political Mobilization of Genomics Research

基因组学研究的挪用、改编和政治动员

• 批准号: 9788503
• 负责人: Aaron Panofsky
• 金额: $ 23.4万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-19 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9788503
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Project Abstract “Appropriation, Adaptation, and Political Mobilization of Genomics Research by White Nationalists” This project will analyze how US white nationalists are appropriating, adapting, politically mobilizing and changing themselves in response to contemporary genomics research. White nationalists have gained public prominence since 2015 trying to bring greater visibility to their movement and policy ideas. Ideas from genetics have been prominent in their public pronouncements and in online discussions among white nationalists. For example, they discuss genetic ancestry tests to demonstrate pure European/white ancestry, population genetics to “prove” the biological reality of race, and behavior genetics to claim the intellectual and behavioral superiority of whites. However, professional geneticists have repudiated such interpretations arguing all populations are admixed, race is a poor representation of genetic population structure, and genetics is non- deterministic and cannot be used to justify social hierarchies. This leads to a series of questions: Why have white nationalists sought to appropriate genomics? How have they built interpretations that contradict the mainstream of professional genetics? And what areas of research and findings have drawn most of their interest? At stake in this study is the public understanding of contemporary genomics and whether white nationalists' interpretations will gain prominence. Sociological research has shown that the public acceptance of ideas has less to do with whether they are right or wrong than with how audiences perceive the authority of speakers. Thus beyond their interpretations, how white nationalists build authority and seek to discredit ideas that contradict theirs will also be discerned. This project will draw its research materials from white nationalists' writings in online blogs, news and opinion pieces, and discussion forums. It will employ the methods of qualitative, interpretive sociology and draw analytically from studies of public participation in science to uncover white nationalists' cognitive frameworks and meanings as they engage contemporary genomics. The project has three aims. 1) To catalog white nationalist discussion of genomics online, map the subfields and topics they focus on and ignore, and to compare their interpretations with those of professional genomics researchers. 2) To analyze how they mobilize genomics ideas in service of their political agenda, how they change their politics in response, and how this compares to those of past political movements. 3) To reconstruct how they build authority for their interpretations of science and applications to politics. Findings will help enrich discussions of the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics to go beyond medical and scientific contexts to political meanings. Furthermore, this project will offer tools to improve science communication to limit the appeal of discriminatory or racist appropriations of genetics.

项目摘要 “白人民族主义者对基因组学研究的拨款，适应和政治动员” 该项目将分析美国白人民族主义者如何适当，适应，在政治上动员和 改变自己是为了回应当代基因组学研究。白人民族主义者已公开 自2015年以来的突出地位，试图为他们的运动和政策思想带来更大的知名度。遗传学的想法 在他们的公开声明和白人民族主义者之间的在线讨论中，人们一直很突出。为了 例如，他们讨论了遗传血统测试，以证明纯欧洲/白人血统，人口 遗传学“证明”种族的生物学现实，以及行为遗传学来主张智力和行为 白人的优越性。但是，专业遗传学家拒绝了这种解释，以争论所有 种群被混合，种族是遗传种群结构的不良代表，遗传学是非 - 确定性，不能用来证明社会等级的合理性。这导致了一系列问题：为什么 白人民族主义者试图适当的基因组学？他们如何建立与 专业遗传学的主流？以及研究和发现的哪些领域绘制了大部分 兴趣？这项研究的危险是公众对当代基因组学以及白色是否理解 民族主义者的解释将获得希望。社会学研究表明，公众接受 想法与对观众的看法如何对或错的权威无关。 演讲者。除了他们的解释之外，白人民族主义者如何建立权威并寻求抹黑思想 这与他们的矛盾也将被辨别。该项目将从白人民族主义者的研究材料中获取研究材料 在线博客，新闻和观点文章以及讨论论坛中的著作。它将采用 定性，解释性的社会学，并通过对公众参与科学的研究进行分析来探索 白人民族主义者的认知框架和含义是当代基因组学。项目 有三个目标。 1）在线对基因组学的讨论进行分类，映射子场和主题 他们专注于和忽略，并将其解释与专业基因组学的解释进行比较 研究人员。 2）分析他们如何动员基因组思想以服务其政治议程，他们如何 改变他们的政治回应，以及与过去的政治运动相比。 3）到 重建他们如何建立对科学和对政治应用的解释的权威。调查结果会 帮助丰富遗传学对道德，法律和社会含义的讨论，超越医学和 政治意义的科学环境。此外，该项目将提供改善科学的工具 沟通以限制遗传学的歧视性或种族主义分配的出现。