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Barcoding Nature - Shifting Cultures of Taxonomy in an Age of Biodiversity Loss (Hardcover)
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Barcoding Nature - Shifting Cultures of Taxonomy in an Age of Biodiversity Loss (Hardcover)
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DNA Barcoding has been promoted since 2003 as a new, fast, digital
genomics-based means of identifying natural species based on the
idea that a small standard fragment of any organism's genome (a
so-called 'micro-genome') can faithfully identify and help to
classify every species on the planet. The fear that species are
becoming extinct before they have ever been known fuels barcoders,
and the speed, scope, economy and 'user-friendliness' claimed for
DNA barcoding, as part of the larger ferment around the 'genomics
revolution', has also encouraged promises that it could inspire
humanity to reverse its biodiversity-destructive habits. This book
is based on six years of ethnographic research on changing
practices in the identification and classification of natural
species. Informed both by Science and Technology Studies (STS) and
the anthropology of science, the authors analyse DNA barcoding in
the context of a sense of crisis - concerning global biodiversity
loss, but also the felt inadequacy of taxonomic science to address
such loss. The authors chart the specific changes that this
innovation is propelling in the collecting, organizing, analyzing,
and archiving of biological specimens and biodiversity data. As
they do so they highlight the many questions, ambiguities and
contradictions that accompany the quest to create a genomics-based
environmental technoscience dedicated to biodiversity protection.
They ask what it might mean to recognise ambiguity, contradiction,
and excess more publicly as a constitutive part of this and other
genomic technosciences. Barcoding Nature will be of interest to
students and scholars of sociology of science, science and
technology studies, politics of the environment, genomics and
post-genomics, philosophy and history of biology, and the
anthropology of science.
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