Sangres políticas

Abstract

We work on the tensions between two continents in permanent dispute: "blood" and "politics", "reality" and "device", "nature" and "culture". Those are old issues, and old tensions, but they do not stop updating and now all over the place on issues such as biometrics, genetic maps, identifcation of disappeared, indigenous or gender or minor or drugs identity politics, surrogate pregnancy or the management of marginality. Te ten texts gathered in this special issue discuss from an interdisciplinary perspective the presence of blood - in its different forms - in the contemporary defnition of what we understand by identity, human rights or citizenship.