https://sah.hcommons.org/members/reproutopia/activity/ Activity feed for reproutopia. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:05:11 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a28e390f8a021fdd86efadd96cfd1724 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635637/ Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:31:39 -0400 Surrogate pregnancy “is much better work than a laborer, a construction-worker, or a maid”; so said the star clinician Nayna Patel to the English BBC World talk- show host Stephen Sackur during a 2013 episode of HardTalk…

]]> 0 0948a22e48af455cd3f59253d2438a5d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623632/ Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:25:27 -0500 In response to the four commentaries on ‘Cyborg uterine geography’, in which I argued normatively for reorganizing gestation on the basis of comradeliness, I grapple with three overlapping conceptual areas highlighted: the ethical and political affordances of the term ‘generosity’ in relation to care and pregnancy; the methodological questio…[Read more]

]]> 0 011d153593a2418a7d5ad591310f1d4a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623631/ Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:25:22 -0500 In response to the four commentaries on ‘Cyborg uterine geography’, in which I argued normatively for reorganizing gestation on the basis of comradeliness, I grapple with three overlapping conceptual areas highlighted: the ethical and political affordances of the term ‘generosity’ in relation to care and pregnancy; the methodological questio…[Read more]

]]> 0 659042b3585a5b5f9a7ee671c6935597 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623630/ Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:25:21 -0500 In response to the four commentaries on ‘Cyborg uterine geography’, in which I argued normatively for reorganizing gestation on the basis of comradeliness, I grapple with three overlapping conceptual areas highlighted: the ethical and political affordances of the term ‘generosity’ in relation to care and pregnancy; the methodological questio…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f2afd2e2e20d0fcabd5aa3cf90fd47c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623531/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:12:51 -0500 In response to the four commentaries on ‘Cyborg uterine geography’, in which I argued normatively for reorganizing gestation on the basis of comradeliness, I grapple with three overlapping conceptual areas highlighted: the ethical and political affordances of the term ‘generosity’ in relation to care and pregnancy; the methodological questio…[Read more]

]]> 0 64139113a9c1b7ecc3adfed03aad317b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623272/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 17:14:57 -0500 Most geographers have sided with ‘cyborgs’ (technonatural subjects) against ‘goddesses’ (e.g. Mother Earth) on questions of embodiment. In itself this provides no justification for the relative dearth (in geography) of theorizing ‘with’ the uterus as a site of doing and undoing; what I propose to call uterine geography. ‘Uterine’ relations are f…[Read more]

]]> 0 060c78a071138b3881220aa5da63a87b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611271/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 04:18:51 -0400 In this essay, I discuss salient themes of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). I hold that The Child To Come’s main thrust is this: ‘The issue is not that there is no future but rather that there is no sure way of orienting toward that future, either to save it or to survive it’. The chall…[Read more]

]]> 0 edaf6f5519d8593b5c3ffbaa92bbbbb4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611270/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 04:18:47 -0400 In this essay, I discuss salient themes of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). I hold that The Child To Come’s main thrust is this: ‘The issue is not that there is no future but rather that there is no sure way of orienting toward that future, either to save it or to survive it’. The chall…[Read more]

]]> 0 edaf6f5519d8593b5c3ffbaa92bbbbb4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611269/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 04:18:47 -0400 In this essay, I discuss salient themes of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). I hold that The Child To Come’s main thrust is this: ‘The issue is not that there is no future but rather that there is no sure way of orienting toward that future, either to save it or to survive it’. The chall…[Read more]

]]> 0 714fb41900d0d8bc511138bc6f8314c8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611226/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:17:47 -0400 In this essay, I discuss salient themes of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). I hold that The Child To Come’s main thrust is this: ‘The issue is not that there is no future but rather that there is no sure way of orienting toward that future, either to save it or to survive it’. The chall…[Read more]

]]> 0 cad71b18c288274ec61c9a6a950c9f5b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611225/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:10:10 -0400 0 b5f4360fe9b49571d494bc0732b3edb4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1607665/ Thu, 03 May 2018 13:46:17 -0400 0 84fc024e30919c154d9965ddf16342ca https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1604305/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:11:03 -0400 0 d3cdae7491dfe86761b016f9cfa9f090 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1604304/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:06:59 -0400 In this chapter, Sophie Lewis discusses the burgeoning industry of commercial surrogate gestation, with reference to Baby Gammy. Lewis shows that we are reluctant to countenance unity between the politics of surrogates and other, paid or unpaid, reproducers. Contesting this tendency makes it possible to theorize surrogacy politics as continuous…[Read more]

]]> 0 a60c4f1a0b20e4cd83fe025087e5b91d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1603932/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:35:45 -0400 Reflections on the B!RTH festival at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre (19th-22nd October 2016).

]]> 0 5aa581793eedfe554667048cfaa60a3c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1603930/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:29:28 -0400 0 201a1b8498b7630d2a876b64183cf34d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597963/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 04:27:22 -0500 Reproductive justice and gestational surrogacy are often implicitly treated as antonyms. Yet the former represents a theoretic approach that enables the long and racialised history of surrogacy (far from a new or ‘exceptional’ practice) to be appreciated as part of a struggle for ‘radical kinship’ and gender-inclusive polymaternalism. Recasti…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8502f753935ad3ca5eeb6c6ef82c9ac https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597962/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 04:27:20 -0500 Reproductive justice and gestational surrogacy are often implicitly treated as antonyms. Yet the former represents a theoretic approach that enables the long and racialised history of surrogacy (far from a new or ‘exceptional’ practice) to be appreciated as part of a struggle for ‘radical kinship’ and gender-inclusive polymaternalism. Recasti…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e4bc07a46b9d763689e570ad349b761 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597961/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 04:27:20 -0500 As surrogacy services expand globally, more and more nations are moving to ban the practice. Calls for its abolition couched in feminist terms returned to prominence in international public life in 2012. The resurgence follows a lapse since the heyday of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering…[Read more]

]]> 0 00d0705189cbe4a678001e8234aa42b6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597960/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 04:27:17 -0500 As surrogacy services expand globally, more and more nations are moving to ban the practice. Calls for its abolition couched in feminist terms returned to prominence in international public life in 2012. The resurgence follows a lapse since the heyday of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering…[Read more]

]]> 0 41b3e65d1dd6c46a4a66bf16394f876e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597913/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 21:43:08 -0500 0 aabf57d14d094eb1254406cc61a5fea7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597820/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:36:01 -0500 As surrogacy services expand globally, more and more nations are moving to ban the practice. Calls for its abolition couched in feminist terms returned to prominence in international public life in 2012. The resurgence follows a lapse since the heyday of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering…[Read more]

]]> 0 79dbe9ef25fe1cc9e79ffb2581432643 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597819/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:29:49 -0500 Reproductive justice and gestational surrogacy are often implicitly treated as antonyms. Yet the former represents a theoretic approach that enables the long and racialised history of surrogacy (far from a new or ‘exceptional’ practice) to be appreciated as part of a struggle for ‘radical kinship’ and gender-inclusive polymaternalism. Recasti…[Read more]

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