Social Science Indigenous Studies
Living Dead in the Pacific
Contested Sovereignty and Racism in Genetic Research on Taiwan Aborigines
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2014
- Category
- Indigenous Studies, Science & Technology Policy, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774826594
- Publish Date
- Jan 2014
- List Price
- $95.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774826600
- Publish Date
- Jul 2014
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Colonized since the 1600s, Taiwan is largely a nation of settlers, yet within its population of twenty-three million are 500,000 Aboriginal people. In their quest to learn about disease and evolution, genetic researchers have eagerly studied this group over the past thirty years but have often disregarded the rights of their subjects. Examining a troubling revival of racially configured genetic research and the questions of sovereignty it raises, Living Dead in the Pacific details a history of exploitation and resistance that represents a new area of conflict facing Aboriginal people both within Taiwan and around the world.
About the author
Mark Munsterhjelm teaches at the University of Windsor and is the author of Living Dead in the Pacific: Contested Sovereignty and Racism in Genetic Research on Taiwan Aborigines.
Awards
- Winner, Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize, Canadian Communication Association