Media Coverage, Article Retractions and Reviews – Forensic Colonialism Book Website

The research for this book has already generated significant media coverage and article retractions since 2019.

2019 February 21. “China Uses DNA to Track Its People, with the Help of American Expertise.” New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/business/china-xinjiang-uighur-dna-thermo-fisher.html?ref=oembed

2019 July 5. “Stuck in China is Panopticon” Planet Money podcast, National Public Radio. https://www.npr.org/2019/07/05/738949320/episode-924-stuck-in-chinas-panopticon

2019, December 3. “China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help from the West.” New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/business/china-dna-uighurs-xinjiang.html?ref=oembed

Article Retraction Notices:

Hao Weiqi, Liu Jing, Jiang Li, Han Jun-Ping, Wang Ling, Li Jiu-Ling, Ma
Quan, Liu Chao, Wang Hui-Jun, and Li Caixia. 2021. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Exploring the ancestry differentiation and inference capacity of the 28-plex AISNPs. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 135, 2149. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00439-019-02023-7

Jing Xiaoxi, Yanan Sun, Wenting Zhao, Xingjian Gao, Mi Ma, Fan Liu, and
Caixia Li. 2021. “Retraction Note: Predicting Adult Height from DNA Variants in a European-Asian Admixed Population.” International Journal of Legal Medicine 135:2151. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00414-021-02692-y

Li Yi, Zhao Wenting, Li Dan, Tao Xianming, Xiong Ziyi , Liu Jing, Zhang Wei, Ji Anquan, Tang Kun, Fan Liu, and Li Caixia. 2021 “Retraction Note: EDAR, LYPLAL1, PRDM16, PAX3, DKK1, TNFSF12, CACNA2D3, and SUPT3H Gene Variants Influence Facial Morphology in a Eurasian Population.” Human Genetics 140:1499. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00439-021-02352-6

Reviews and Articles

Simon Cole. Review of Munsterhjelm, Mark. Forensic Colonialism: Genetics and the Capture of Indigenous Peoples. H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews. April, 2024.

URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=59914

Munsterhjelm, Mark. 2024 March 1. Forensic Colonialism. Global Dialogue 14(1), International Sociology Association.

URL: https://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/forensic-colonialism

–. 2024 March 1. Crimes against Humanity in Xinjiang and the Crisis in Forensic Genetics. Impact Ethics. Memorial University Centre for Bioethics. URL: https://impactethics.ca/2024/03/01/crimes-against-humanity-in-xinjiang-and-the-crisis-in-forensic-genetics/

Dec 10, 2023. Podcast on Forensic Colonialism: Genetics and the Capture of Indigenous Peoples With Mark Munsterhjelm, hosted by Melek Firat Altay. New Books Network. URL: https://newbooksnetwork.com/forensic-colonialism