Constructing knowledge on investigative genetic genealogy: policy-making, human rights and the private individual

As such, the use of IGG raises privacy concerns not only for individuals whose genetic data are stored within those genetic genealogy databases, but also for their blood relatives.

This thesis responds to the emergence of IGG and couples a science and technology studies (STS) methodological framework with dramaturgy to critically examine the aetiology of knowledge production on IGG, the epicentre for which was centred within the United States. By doing so, this thesis develops theory as to how knowledge on IGG was constructed within the United States before revealing the nuanced knowledge-making activities which were undertaken by a number of key authoritative bodies within the United Kingdom and the knowledge they produced.