CfA - Apologies for cross-posting
Dear Colleagues,
we are very pleased to invite you to send abstracts (by 23 April) to the
stream session 'Environments, Populations, Species, Ecologies' of the XI
AFIN Conference 'Towards Reproductive (In)Justice? Mobilities,
Technologies, Labourings and Decisions' in Granada, Spain, on 4-6
September 2019. - We are also pleased to announce that Dr Katie Dow
(ReproSoc, Univ. of Cambridge) is going to give a keynote address, which
is of great importance to this stream session. Please see the call for
abstracts attached and also pasted below this email - as well as the
conference website including the full conference call for all the 7
stream sessions and the line-up of keynote speakers. Please circulate
widely to your colleagues and students who you think could be
interested. At the time of the Extinction Rebellion, there may be no
topic more urgent than reproduction and the environment - so we hope to
see many of you in Granada!
https://afinconference2019.wordpress.com/inicio/ <https://afinconference2019.wordpress.com/inicio/>
Warm wishes,
Marcin Smietana, Giulia Zanini, Marta Mayoral
XI AFIN Conference
Towards Reproductive (In)Justice: Mobilities, Technologies, Labourings &
Decisions
4-6 September, 2019, Granada, Spain
Stream session 5: Environments, Populations, Species, Ecologies
Stream convenors:
Giulia Zanini, University of Barcelona, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Marcin Smietana, Reproductive Sociology Research Group, University of
Cambridge, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Marta Mayoral, AFIN, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB),
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Recent scholarship has shown a growing importance of the intersection
between reproduction and the environment (Dow 2016). Scholars asked how
contemporary feminisms may encounter and embrace environmental concerns;
how different forms of reproduction impact on the planet; what
(eco-)feminisms should look like in relation to sciences and
technologies; and how kinship can or should expand across species (e.g.
Franklin 2007; Friese 2013; Bashford 2014; Tsing 2015; Dow 2016; Murphy
2017; Clarke & Haraway 2018; Merleau-Ponty 2018).
Human and non-human reproduction and relationships have long inspired
discussions about how to manage and frame not only existence but also
reciprocal ontologies and common cosmologies (Descola, 2005; Viveiro de
Castro 1998). At the moment, rewilding projects and animal-rights
movements represent ways in which such relationships and ontologies are
questioned, re-shaped and promoted to advocate for specific bio-politics
or to inspire particular futures (e.g. Taylor & Twine 2014; Tønnessen et
al. 2016).
Moreover, environmental contingencies as well as the rise of
environmental toxicity may be deeply interconnected to humans and
non-humans’ abilities to reproduce, both affecting living conditions and
health in general terms, and reproductive health in particular (Chen
2012; Agard-Jones 2014; Lamoreaux 2016; Wahlberg 2018). Environmental
conditions and events may also be intertwined with people’s
decision-making on whether and how to live their reproductive lives.
Climate change may produce specific living emergencies, whereby human
and non-human living beings are confronted with the options to move or
to change their life expectations and habits (e.g. Fosket & Mamo 2009).
Meanwhile, the local and international debates around such a change
begin to inform policies and non-governmental interventions that affect
specific ecologies.
Some scholars have suggested that the current growth of human population
may be too much of a burden on the environment and other species (e.g.
Clarke & Haraway 2018), even if they recognized that neo-Malthusian and
anti-natalist approaches could lead to eugenic and stratified
reproduction of only some and not others. The histories of global
reproduction, colonialism and race hierarchies show these dangers very
well (Bashford 2014; Hopwood et al. 2018). Therefore others have
suggested that it is not reproduction per se, but rather the
organization of reproduction, consumption and life, including new
solidarities, that can offer hope to species and the planet.
This panel calls for papers where scholars intend to explore the
interconnections between reproduction, environments, ecologies and
species in order to trace how reproductive justice is and should be
informed by the specific complexities linked to such an approach – and
how reproductive justice may be, ultimately, environmental justice
(Sturgeon 2014) or even inter-species justice.
Please send abstracts of approx. 250-300 words to Marta Mayoral, AFIN,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>, no
later than 23 April 2019
Selected references:
Agard-Jones, Vanessa, 2014. Spray: Commonplaces: Itemizing the
Technological Present, Somatosphere, May 2014.
http://somatosphere.net/2014/05/spray.html <http://somatosphere.net/2014/05/spray.html>
Bashford, Alison, 2014. Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and
Life on Earth. Columbia Univ. Press.
Clarke, Adele & Haraway, Donna (Eds), 2018. Make Kin not Populations.
Prickly Paradigm Press, Chicago.
Dow, Katharine, 2016. Making a Good Life: An Ethnography of Nature,
Ethics, and Reproduction. Princeton University Press, Princeton and
Oxford.
Fosket, Jennifer & Mamo, Laura, 2009. Living Green: Communities that
Sustain. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island-Canada.
Franklin, Sarah, 2007. Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy. Duke
University Press.
Friese, Carrie, 2013. Cloning Wild Life: zoos, captivity, and the future
of endangered animals. New York University Press, New York.
Lamoreaux, Janelle, 2016. What if the Environment is a Person? Lineages
of epigenetics in a toxic China. Cultural Anthropology 31 (2), 188–214
(https://culanth.org/articles/806-what-if-theenvironment- <https://culanth.org/articles/806-what-if-theenvironment->
is-a-person-lineages-of).
Sturgeon, Noël, 2010. Penguin Family Values: The Nature of Planetary
Environmental Reproductive Justice. In: Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona; &
Erickson, Bruce (Eds.), Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire.
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN.
Tønnessen, Morten; Rattasepp, Silver; & Armstrong Oma, Kristin, 2016.
Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene: Human-animal
relations in the era of humankind. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Taylor, Nik; & Twine, Richard, 2014. The Rise of Critical Animal
Studies: From the Margins to the Centre. Routledge Advances in
Sociology. Routledge, Oxon and New York.
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo, 1998. Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian
Perspectivism. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 4(3):
469–488.
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Dr. Marcin Smietana
Research Associate
Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc)
Department of Sociology
University of Cambridge, UK
16 Mill Lane
Cambridge CB2 1SB
http://www.reprosoc.sociology.cam.ac.uk/directory/MarcinSmietana <http://www.reprosoc.sociology.cam.ac.uk/directory/MarcinSmietana>
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