Dolly Mixtures

Franklin Sarah Franklin

Description

While the creation of Dolly the sheep, the world's most famous clone, triggered an enormous amount of discussion about human cloning, in Dolly Mixtures the anthropologist Sarah Franklin looks beyond that much-rehearsed controversy to some of the other reasons why the iconic animal's birth and death were significant. Building on the work of historians and anthropologists, Franklin reveals Dolly as the embodiment of agricultural, scientific, social, and commercial histories which are, in turn, bound up with national and imperial aspirations. Dolly was the offspring of a long tradition of animal domestication, as well as the more recent histories of capital accumulation through selective breeding, and enhanced national competitiveness through the control of biocapital. Franklin traces Dolly's connections to Britain's centuries-old sheep and wool markets (which were vital to the nation's industrial revolution) and to Britain's export of animals to its colonies-particularly Australia-to expand markets and produce wealth. Moving forward in time, she explains the celebrity sheep's links to the embryonic cell lines and global bioscientific innovation of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first.Franklin combines wide-ranging sources-from historical accounts of sheep-breeding, to scientific representations of cloning by nuclear transfer, to popular media reports of Dolly's creation and birth-as she draws on gender and kinship theory as well as postcolonial and science studies. She argues that there is an urgent need for more nuanced responses to the complex intersections between the social and the biological, intersections which are literally reshaping reproduction and genealogy. In Dolly Mixtures, Franklin uses the renowned sheep as an opportunity to begin developing a critical language to identify and evaluate the reproductive possibilities that post-Dolly biology now faces, and to look back at some of the important historical formations that enabled and prefigured Dollys creation.

Sujets

• Droit et juridique

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 11 avril 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822389651
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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A John Hope Franklin Center Book

Dolly Mixtures

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Contents

Acknowledgmentsix

Origins 

Sex 

Capital 

Nation 

Colony 

Death 

Breeds 

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

This project began as a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship in , for which I am very grateful. I am also indebted to Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute, which I was able to visit in  and again in  for highly educational research tours of the facility. There, I also met Dolly and her many flock-mates, who were as charmingly intractable as I had heard. The opportunity to spend time with Thelma Rowell and her flock of feral Soay sheep in York- shire, near Ingleton, was enhanced by many conversations and home- made delicacies that provided me with insight into many aspects of animal sociality of which I was unaware, as well as aspects of my own I had never noticed. I am very indebted to Thelma for her generosity, hospitality, and wisdom about sheep in particular, and life in gen- eral. Thank you also to Glen and Dan Shapiro for an introduction to your Blue-faced Leicester flock on Hazelwood Farm and many con- versations about ‘‘sheepwatching.’’ Lastly, I owe considerable thanks to the Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’s Stem Cell Consortium, in par- ticular Peter Braude, Sue Pickering, and Stephen Minger, who have enabled me to learn from them about stem cell science, embryology, and developmental biology. The number of individuals who have assisted in the intellectual journey that accompanied the writing ofDolly Mixturesis almost as vast as the number of people who should be thanked for putting up with endless sheep jokes. In Britain, I owe a big thanks to my former Lancaster colleagues, especially Alan Holland, Maureen McNeil, and Jackie Stacey, as well as my BIOS Centre colleagues at the London School of Economics and Political Science, in particular Nikolas Rose. In the United States, I have to thank Lauren Berlant for leading me to the sheep entry in theEncyclopedia Britannica, and Charis Thompson for inviting me to visit the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, where Elizabeth Franklin helped to remind me of the depth of my own agricultural origins. In Australia I would particularly like to thank Sue Hawes for hosting my visit to Monash, and Elspeth Probyn, whose hospitality at the University of Sydney enabled the writing up of the final draft ofDolly Mixtures. In Canada I would like