Recombinant DNA and Genome-editing Technologies : Embodied
Utopias and Heterotopias

J 2021

Recombinant DNA and Genome-editing Technologies : Embodied Utopias and Heterotopias

ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva

Basic information

Original name

Recombinant DNA and Genome-editing Technologies : Embodied Utopias and Heterotopias

Name in Czech

Rekombinace DNA a editování genomu : Vtělené utopie a heterotopie

Authors

ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Body & Society, London, SAGE Publications, 2021, 1357-034X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50404 Antropology, ethnology

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.122

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/21:00121939

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034X21998449

UT WoS

000674011900002

Keywords (in Czech)

tělesnost; editace genomu; heterotopie; Michel Foucault; rekombinace genomu;utopie

Keywords in English

embodiment; genome editing; heterotopia;Michel Foucault; recombinant DNA; utopia

Abstract

V originále

Recombinant DNA technology is an essential area of life engineering. The main aim of research in this field is to experimentally explore the possibilities of repairing damaged human DNA, healing or enhancing future human bodies. Based on ethnographic research in a Czech biochemical laboratory, the article explores biotechnological corporealities and their specific ontology through dealings with bio-objects, the bodywork of scientists. Using the complementary concepts of utopia and heterotopia, the text addresses the situation of bodies and bio-objects in a laboratory. Embodied utopias are analyzed as material semiotic phenomena that are embodied by scientists in their visions and emotions and that are related to potential bodies and to future, not-yet-actualized embodiments. As a counterpart to this, the text explores embodied heterotopias, which are always the other spaces, like biotechnological bio-objects that are simulated in computers or stored in special solutions.

Links

MUNI/A/1359/2019, interní kód MU

Name: Role individuálních a kolektivních aktérů v procesu sociální změny (Acronym: RIKA)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

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Citovat

ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva. Recombinant DNA and Genome-editing Technologies : Embodied Utopias and Heterotopias. Body & Society. London: SAGE Publications, 2021, vol. 27, No 2, p. 32-57. ISSN 1357-034X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034X21998449.

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ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva. Recombinant DNA and Genome-editing Technologies : Embodied Utopias and Heterotopias. \textit{Body \&{} Society}. London: SAGE Publications, 2021, vol.~27, No~2, p.~32-57. ISSN~1357-034X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034X21998449.

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