Reproduction and Biopolitics: "Ethnographies of Governance, ""Irrationality"" and Resistance"

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Silvia De Zordo (University of Barcelona, Spain) Milena Marchesi (University of Massachusetts, USA)

Reproduction and Biopolitics

"Ethnographies of Governance, ""Irrationality"" and Resistance"

Silvia De Zordo (University of Barcelona, Spain), Milena Marchesi (University of Massachusetts, USA)

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Routledge
03 October 2014

Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments; Sociology: family & relationships; Anthropology

"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. In a global context of declining fertility, population policies have shifted to a neoliberal register, which, despite local differences, includes both the deepening of economic and social inequalities and the intensification of rights discourses applied to the unborn. Inspired by Foucault’s theories on biopolitics and biopower and by a long tradition of feminist anthropological studies on reproduction, the ethnographically based papers collected in this volume address the following crucial questions: How does the notion of ""irrational"" reproduction emerge and play out in diverse socio-political contexts and what forms of subjectivities and resistance does it generate? How does the ""threat"" of too few or too many children, itself constructed through expert knowledge of statistics and political concerns over the size of different ethnic populations or classes, justify and support different biopolitical projects? And how do the increasing privatization of healthcare and the dismantling of welfare states affect reproductive practices and decisions on the ground in the global North and South?

This book was originally published as a special issue of Anthropology and Medicine."

Edited by: Silvia De Zordo (University of Barcelona Spain), Milena Marchesi (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781138803220
ISBN 10: 1138803227
Pages: 132
Publication Date: 03 October 2014
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.