Publications

I have published two research monographs. My latest book Population Genetics and Belonging: A Cultural Analysis of Genetic Ancestry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) explores how human population genetics has emerged as a means of imagining and enacting belonging in contemporary societies. It approaches population genetics as an evolving set of technological, material, narrative and affective practices, arguing that these practices are engaged in multiple forms of belonging that are often mutually contradictory.

My first book Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Evolutionary Narratives (Routledge, 2013; paperback edition 2017) examined the popularity of evolutionary psychological explanations of gender and sexuality by analyzing their commitments to and revisions of the Darwinian narrative tradition. Through a range of popular, literary and scientific texts, the book identifies shifts, patterns and variations in how evolution is discussed and debated across science and society.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

EDITED WORK

OTHER ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS IN FINNISH

  • (with Kuura Irni & Mianna Meskus) (eds) Muokattu elämä: Teknotiede, sukupuoli ja materiaalisuus [Moulded Life: Technoscience, Gender and Materiality]. Tampere: Vastapaino, 2014.
  • Geneettiset alkuperätestit ja juurien etsintä. [Genetic Ancestry Tests and the Search for Roots]. In S. Irni, M. Meskus & V. Oikkonen (eds) Muokattu elämä: Teknotiede, sukupuoli ja materiaalisuus. Tampere: Vastapaino, 2014. 342-379.
  • (with Kuura Irni & Mianna Meskus) Teknotieteen, sukupuolen ja materiaalisuuden muunnelmat [Transformations of Technoscience, Gender and Materiality]. In S. Irni, M. Meskus & V. Oikkonen (eds) Muokattu elämä: Teknotiede, sukupuoli ja materiaalisuus. Tampere: Vastapaino, 2014. 1–47.
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