*** CALL FOR PAPERS - RGS-IBG CONFERENCE 2019 ***
Title: Reproductive (Im)mobilities
Work on geographies of reproduction has examined how fertility, pregnancy, and birth are spatialised (England, Fannin & Hazen 2018; MacKinnon 2016; Lewis 2018). As research on reproductive geographies expands, mobility and movement has emerged as a significant theme in this field (Calkin and Freeman 2018; Side 2016; Wang 2017). Reproductive activities implicate mobility in a variety of ways: fertility travel for assisted reproductive technologies and surrogacy markets; abortion travel within and between jurisdictions; debates about ‘birth tourism’ and jus soli/ jus sanguinis citizenship law; trans-national social reproductive care chains; migrant maternal care in the borderlands; and others forms of reproductive mobility. By extension, the reliance on mobility for the access of reproductive healthcare services means that immobility presents obstacles to reproduction. People who are not able to move freely across communities and borders are met with additional obstacles to the exercise of reproductive autonomy.
In this session we seek to bring together feminist geographers from across the discipline to develop the nascent field of reproductive geographies and bring it into conversation with mobilities literature. We welcome papers that consider the following (non-exhaustive) themes:
• The role of technology in facilitating reproductive mobility or immobility
• The intersection of identities in relation to the (im)mobilities of reproduction
• Reproductive technologies and post-human ontologies
• Economies of reproductive (im)mobility
• Legal geographies of reproduction
• Bordering practices and reproduction in the borderlands
• Historical understandings of the mobilities of reproduction
• The future of reproductive geographies
Organized by: Cordelia Freeman (Nottingham); Francesca Moore (Cambridge); Sydney Calkin (Durham)
Please send abstracts of 250 words and a short author bio to the panel organizers BY 8 FEBRUARY 2019: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
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