Mundane Genomics by Violeta Argudo-Portal, Vincenzo Pavone, MAURO TURRINI, Ayo Wahlberg

This book critically analyses the ongoing, often silent, expansion of genomics throughout society. Genomics has undeniably become an integral part of everyday life for many, albeit in ever-stratified ways, and this routinization process has come with interesting and often unpredicted consequences, interacting with national cultures, regulations, healthcare systems, patients, families, and more. Drawing from STS, anthropology, sociology, and political science, this volume explores multiple case studies across the globe, illustrating how genomics spreads, transforms, and is being transformed, ultimately becoming a routine, almost mundane, part of our daily life. The volume unpacks mundane genomics in five realms – assisted reproduction, genetic predisposition and the clinic, direct-to-consumer testing and the making of identities, forensics, and genomics imaginaries – presenting research that illuminates how genomics is no longer confined to the rhetoric of revolution, but increasingly operates within the contours of the everyday, with noteworthy implications for all the actors involved.

Violeta Argudo-Portal is a Serra Húnter Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Vincenzo Pavone is a scholar in Science and Technology Studies, and the Director of the Institute for Public Goods and Policies (IPP) within the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain.

Mauro Turrini is a sociologist of science and medicine at the Institute for Public Goods and Policies (IPP) within the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain, and associated researcher at the Centre for research on medicine, science, health, mental health, and society (CERMES3), France.

Ayo Wahlberg is Professor and Head of Department at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.