Worlding Biodata
Rendering Life in Complex Systems
EJ Gonzalez-Polledo author Silvia Posocco author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bristol University Press
Publishing:4th Dec '25
£85.00
This title is due to be published on 4th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This book offers a new conceptual framework for understanding biodata across different temporalities and global contexts. Moving beyond data as mere information, the authors explore how biodata reshapes human lives, scientific practice and global struggles for justice.
Bridging anthropology, infrastructure studies and technoscience, the book introduces a critical vocabulary for understanding biodata not just as a technical artifact, but as a set of lived, shifting relations that are embedded in histories of racialization, colonial dispossession and the digital transformation of health.
‘In this sophisticated and insightful anthropological critique of the global surge in bioscience and bioeconomic activity, we are reminded that global biodata extraction and organization have become a centering force of life sciences everywhere.’ Peter C. Little, Rhode Island College
‘This book poses a critical question needed at this moment. Is it possible to build ethical infrastructures for learning and thinking about our biologies and health? Using an impressive ethnographic practice, the authors deliver a powerful call for the social groundedness of our knowledge – not only for biodata, but beyond.’ Deboleena Roy, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
‘This book deftly shows how to understand today’s big biodata investments. Gonzalez-Polledo and Posocco evocatively demonstrate how sedimented histories of biocolonial extraction carry forward in data repositories, and how bioinformation dataflows cross domains of knowledge and practice, accruing value and redefining life in the process.’ Noah Tamarkin, Cornell University
ISBN: 9781529253054
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224 pages