Reproduction and Biopolitics: Ethnographies of Governance, Rationality and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780367739690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 122 str.

Silvia de Zordo; Milena Marchesi

Opis

The central theme of this volume is the notion of "irrational reproduction": the ways in which women’s and couples’ reproductive choices and practices are deemed "irrational" or "irresponsible" because they result in the "wrong number" of children. Inspired by Foucault’s theories on biopolitics and biopower and by a long tradition of feminist an

Spis treści

1. Introduction. Ethnography and biopolitics: tracing ‘rationalities’ of reproduction across the north–south divide Elizabeth L. Krause and Silvia De Zordo  2. Irrational non-reproduction? The ‘dying nation’ and the postsocialist logics of declining motherhood in Poland Joanna Mishtal  3. Reproducing Italians: contested biopolitics in the age of ‘replacement anxiety’ Milena Marchesi  4. Islamic logics, reproductive rationalities: family planning in northern Pakistan Emma Varley  5. Programming the body, planning reproduction, governing life: the ‘(ir-) rationality’ of family planning and the embodiment of social inequalities in Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) Silvia De Zordo  6. The right to have a family: ‘legal trafficking of children’, adoption and birth control in Brazil Andrea Cardarello  7. Reproductive governance in Latin America Lynn M. Morgan and Elizabeth F.S. Roberts

O autorze

Silvia De Zordo is a Postdoctoral Beatriu de Pinós Fellow at the University of Barcelona, Spain. She is a social anthropologist with over ten years of research experience on health, gender and reproduction in Latin America and Europe. Her current research focuses on abortion and conscientious objection in Europe

Milena Marchesi is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, USA. She is a social anthropologist whose work focuses on reproduction, migration, gender and the family, and neoliberalism in Italy.