Political bloods

Abstract

We work on the tensions between two continents in permanent dispute: "blood" and "politics", "reality" and "device", "nature" and "culture". They are old issues, and old tensions, but they do not stop updating and now they are manifested everywhere in issues such as biometrics, genetic maps, identification of disappeared, policies of indigenous identity or gender or underage or drugs, surrogate pregnancy or the management of marginality. The ten texts collected in this special issue discuss from an interdisciplinary perspective the presence of blood — in its different declensions — in the contemporary definition of what we understand by identity, human rights or citizenship.