Scientific Technologies of National Identity as Colonial Legacies: Extracting the Spanish Nation from Equatorial Guinea

• Published in: Social studies of science Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 81 - 112
• Main Author: Medina-Doménech, Rosa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England Sage Publications 01.02.2009; SAGE Publications; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: 20th century; African history; Ambivalence; Anthropology; Biopolitics; Blood; Blood tests; Citizenship; Civil war; Colonialism; Colonialism - history; Colonies; Continental Population Groups - classification; Dermatoglyphics - history; Dictatorship; Discourses; Emptying; Equatorial Guinea; Ethnic identity; Ethnicity; Ethnology; Exploitation; Fingerprinting; Francoism; General points; Geography; Hematologic tests; Hematologic Tests - history; History of science and technology; History of science in relation to other disciplinary fields; History, 20th Century; Human Body; Humans; Identity; Identity cards; Intelligence; Legal identity; Local population; Males; Medical research; Medicine; National Identity; New technology; Philosophy; Postcolonial societies; Psychology; Race; Race Relations - history; Racism; Reforms; Science; Science history; Space colonies; Spain; Spanish Empire; Technology; Technology - history; Violence; War; Equatorial Guinea; Spain; New Guinea; Equatorial Guinen; colonial medicine; male bodies; female bodies; Hispanidad; citizenship; blood test; medical technologies; Spanish techno-sciences; National Identity; Citizenship; Technoscience; Colonialism; Identity; Colonial medicine
• ISSN: 0306-3127; 1460-3659
• DOI: 10.1177/0306312708097658

This paper examines how Spanish techno-scientific discourses and practices shaped metropolitan Spanish and colonial Guinean bodies and identities. It focuses on the range of technologies of biopower - from fingerprinting and blood testing to racial and geographic discourses - that constituted Guinea...