The Cryopolitics of Reproduction on Ice

The Cryopolitics of Reproduction on Ice
Author: Charlotte Kroløkke
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-12-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781838670436

Reproduction has entered a new ice age. Using cryopolitics as an interdisciplinary framework to help understand the contemporary state of cryo-fertility, this book explores the ways in which visions of desirable reproductive futures entangle with advances in freezing technologies.

The Cryopolitics of Reproduction on Ice

The Cryopolitics of Reproduction on Ice
Author: Charlotte Kroløkke
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-12-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1838670424

Reproduction has entered a new ice age. Using cryopolitics as an interdisciplinary framework to help understand the contemporary state of cryo-fertility, this book explores the ways in which visions of desirable reproductive futures entangle with advances in freezing technologies.

Cryopolitics

Cryopolitics
Author: Joanna Radin
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2017-03-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 026233870X

The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life. As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are widely used as a means of preservation. Technologies of cryopreservation support global food chains, seed and blood banks, reproductive medicine, and even the preservation of cores of glacial ice used to study climate change. In many cases, these practices of freezing life are an attempt to cheat death. Cryopreservation has contributed to the transformation of markets, regimes of governance and ethics, and the very relationship between life and death. In Cryopolitics, experts from anthropology, history of science, environmental humanities, and indigenous studies make clear the political and cultural consequences of extending life and deferring death by technoscientific means. The contributors examine how and why low temperatures have been harnessed to defer individual death through freezing whole human bodies; to defer nonhuman species death by freezing tissue from endangered animals; to defer racial death by preserving biospecimens from indigenous people; and to defer large-scale human death through pandemic preparedness. The cryopolitical lens, emphasizing the roles of temperature and time, provokes new and important questions about living and dying in the twenty-first century. Contributors Warwick Anderson, Michael Bravo, Jonny Bunning, Matthew Chrulew, Soraya de Chadarevian, Alexander Friedrich, Klaus Hoeyer, Frédéric Keck, Eben Kirksey, Emma Kowal, Joanna Radin, Deborah Bird Rose, Kim TallBear, Charis Thompson, David Turnbull, Thom van Dooren, Rebecca J. H. Woods

The Cryopolitics of Reproduction on Ice

The Cryopolitics of Reproduction on Ice
Author: Charlotte Kroløkke
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2019-12-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1838670440

Reproduction has entered a new ice age. Using cryopolitics as an interdisciplinary framework to help understand the contemporary state of cryo-fertility, this book explores the ways in which visions of desirable reproductive futures entangle with advances in freezing technologies.

A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology

A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology
Author: Cecilia Coale Van Hollen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2025-04-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1119845386

Provides fresh perspectives on the past, present and future-facing contributions of the anthropology of reproduction. A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the anthropological study of reproductive practices, technologies, and interventions in a global context. Exploring the medical and technological management of human reproduction through a sociocultural lens, this groundbreaking volume reviews past and current research, discusses contemporary debates and recent theoretical developments, introduces key themes and trends, examines ongoing issues of equity, inclusivity, and reproductive justice around the world, and more. The Companion brings together essays by multidisciplinary scholars in fields including sociocultural anthropology, medical anthropology, reproductive health, global public health, Science and Technology Studies (STS), gender and sexuality studies, critical race studies, and environmental studies, to list but a few. Five thematically organized sections address reproductive practitioners and paradigms, global reproductive health and interventions, reproductive justice, the life-course approach to the study of reproductive health, and the future of reproductive technology and medicine. Using clear, jargon-free language, the authors investigate pregnancy and childbirth; fertility treatments; birth control, contraception and abortion; COVID-19 and reproduction; reproductive cancers; epigenetics; social discrimination; gender and sexualities and reproduction for LGBTQIA+ communities; race and reproduction; migration and reproduction; reproduction and war; reproductive health financing; reproduction and disabilities, reproduction and the environment; and other important contemporary topics. A cutting-edge guide to the modern study of reproduction, this groundbreaking volume: Provides an overview of the links between anthropological study and progressive work in medicine, healthcare, and technology Addresses both the challenges and opportunities facing researchers in the field Identifies gaps in current scholarship and offers recommendations for future research topics and methodologies Highlights the importance of ethnographic research combined with critical engagements with other disciplines for the anthropology of reproduction Explores the impact of socioeconomic conditions, environmental challenges, public policy, and legislation on reproductive health outcomes Traces the history of the field and demonstrates how anthropologists have engaged with issues of reproductive justice Part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology series, A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology is an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and scholars in medical anthropology, science technology and society, cultural anthropology, ethnology, and gender studies, as well as medical practitioners, policymakers, and activists involved in global and public health and reproductive justice.

Reproductive Citizenship

Reproductive Citizenship
Author: Rhonda M. Shaw
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2022-06-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811694516

This book addresses responses to the predicament of medical and social infertility. It draws on international research to examine the dimensions of reproductive citizenship in relation to decision-making about a range of issues: from fertility preservation and the desirability of family creation as a normative expectation of social participation, to how families manage and negotiate engagement with providers of reproductive materials and services around information disclosure and contact, and how they consider their social obligations and responsibilities in relation to the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART).

Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse

Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse
Author: Victoria Boydell
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800717334

This book presents a dialogue between scholars on different aspects of reproductive technologies. If we continue to work in disciplinary silos, reproductive studies is in danger of missing, and thereby reproducing, the kinds of power structures that shape reproductive life.

When Reproduction meets Ageing

When Reproduction meets Ageing
Author: Nolwenn Bühler
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2021-05-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839097469

When Reproduction meets Ageing questions the nature of reproductive ageing and reproductive biomedicine.

Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality

Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality
Author: Corinna Sabrina Guerzoni
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800714386

Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality explores the growing centrality and power of the medical professional and lay practices within the field of human reproduction as they entangle with political economic processes, providing examples from multiple countries.

Lived Realities of Solo Motherhood, Donor Conception and Medically Assisted Reproduction

Lived Realities of Solo Motherhood, Donor Conception and Medically Assisted Reproduction
Author: Tine Ravn
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839091150

This book explores the empirical manifestations of the paradoxical features of reproductive technologies and provides in-depth understandings of solo motherhood through assisted reproduction and by recognising the complex experiences and the lived realities of forming donor-conceived families.