{"id":48480,"date":"2016-07-29T20:16:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T20:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48480"},"modified":"2016-07-29T20:16:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T20:16:29","slug":"we-are-all-the-same-we-all-are-mestizos-imagined-populations-and-nations-in-genetics-research-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48480","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Are All the Same, We All Are Mestizos\u2019: Imagined Populations and Nations in Genetics Research in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018We Are All the Same, We All Are <\/strong><\/em>Mestizos\u2019<\/strong>: Imagined Populations and Nations in Genetics Research in Colombia<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Science as Culture<\/a>
\nVolume 23, Issue 2, 2014<\/a>
\npages 226-252
\nDOI: 10.1080\/09505431.2013.838214<\/a><\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Fernanda Olarte Sierra<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor
\nDepartment of Design
\nUniversity of the Andes, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia<\/em><\/p>\n

Adriana D\u00edaz Del Castillo Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, Independent Researcher
\nConsultor\u00eda en Estudios Sociales Sobre Educaci\u00f3n, Salud, Ciencia y Tecnolog\u00eda, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia<\/em><\/p>\n

In Colombia<\/a>, as in other Latin American<\/a> countries, current population genetics research is based on the understanding that Colombians constitute a mestizo<\/em><\/a> nation, given the admixture process that took place between Africans, Amerindians<\/a>, and Europeans during colonial times. The mestizo<\/em> is a pervasive category used by geneticists to conduct, organise, and publish research studies that deal with the continent’s peopling process and the genetic makeup of its contemporary population(s). It is also the dominant imaginary for the Colombian population and a key nation-building ideology. By tracing how this category moves and is used across four Colombian genetics laboratories, it is possible to discern that despite its apparently clear-cut boundaries, the mestizo<\/em> is contingent, contested, and flexible, allowing for multiple understandings and usages. This flexibility and multiplicity are visible in the quantification of genetic ancestry, the divisions of geographical location, and the understanding of gender. Such understandings allow one to think about a homogeneous nation (inclusive) that is simultaneously heterogeneous (exclusive); they provide multiple but not necessarily contradictory possibilities of being mestizo<\/em>, allowing the coexistence of images of the nation that could otherwise seem contradictory; and they permit navigation around contested terms such as race, while simultaneously thinking of mixed races or racialised individuals. Finally, these flexible and multiple constructions of the mestizo<\/em> (re)produce various subjects as \u2018other\u2019, whether they are women, the Indigenous, the black\/dark, or the poor.<\/p>\n

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\u2018We Are All the Same, We All Are Mestizos\u2019: Imagined Populations and Nations in Genetics Research in Colombia Science as Culture Volume 23, Issue 2, 2014 pages 226-252 DOI: 10.1080\/09505431.2013.838214 Mar\u00eda Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Assistant Professor Department of Design University of the Andes, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia Adriana D\u00edaz Del Castillo Hern\u00e1ndez, Independent Researcher Consultor\u00eda en Estudios […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,2039,8],"tags":[24636,1865,16563,24637],"class_list":["post-48480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-adriana-diaz-del-castillo-hernandez","tag-colombia","tag-maria-fernanda-olarte-sierra","tag-science-as-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48481,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48480\/revisions\/48481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}