Underground Ecocriticism Liveblog 20

Tania Aguila-Way. “Bioscience and Environment in Contemporary Diasporic Canadian Writing.”
Genomics reshapes diasporic notions of community.
Idea that contingency can be reduced by chasing genetic roots. 
But alternative model << not genetic heritage but bodily immersion in the environment (Alaimo on transcorporeality)
Wong: transcorporeal landscape that become substance of diasporic self.