Curating Medical Heritage 1: Reconciliation and Indigeneity
Michaela Clark reflects on the three-day workshop Curating Medical Heritage: Reconciliation and Indigeneity held in Uppsala & Stockholm on 23-25 September 2024.
In the Zine House: The Garden
Zines that connect to plants, the environment and nature often distribute knowledges with long histories as well as offering new ways of relating to the future, says Lea Cooper.
‘Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes’: Book Review
Anna Kemball reviews Joanna Ziarkowska’s Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes: Biomedicalization and Embodied Resistance in Native American Literature (Routledge, 2020). In Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes, Joanna Ziarkowska maps how biomedicine has reshaped and
Postapocalyptic Peoples? Covid-19, Public Health, and Native Americans
In this post, Anna Kemball reflects on the framing of Native Americans as ‘postapocalyptic’ people in the context of Coronavirus. She discusses the missing public health data on Native American rates of Covid-19 amidst
Biocolonialism: perspectives from the humanities (review)
Shelley Angelie Saggar reflects on Biocolonialism: Perspectives from the Humanities, University of Leeds, 22-23rd May, 2019. Genetic research and the science of salvation The early years of the 21st century were marked by both