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Please join Mianna Meskus<https://miannameskus.net/> (University of Tampere) and myself for our open panel at the EASST + 4S JOINT CONFERENCE 2020 (https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/) in Prague, August 18-21.
Panel 162. Speculative Futures and the Biopolitics of Populations: Exploring Continuities and Discontinuities Across and Beyond Crisis Discourses
The panel abstract can be found below. The Deadline for paper abstracts is February 29. The full list of panels can be found here: https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/accepted-open-pannels/
Panel abstract:
Speculative Futures and the Biopolitics of Populations: Exploring Continuities and Discontinuities Across and Beyond Crisis Discourses
Falling fertility rates, ageing populations, and the resulting strains on national economies and welfare systems engender headlines of national and international crises on a daily basis across the world. Simultaneously, the human population size has been problematized in terms of the ongoing climate crisis. Taking stock of these complex material legacies of modernity, this panel aims to bring together scholars whose work examines reproduction and/or ageing and how these broad yet intertwined phenomena figure as challenges for current governance in multiple ways. We are interested in how practices of science, technology and policy become enrolled in our demographically, economically and ecologically uncertain futures.
Imagining the future is increasingly speculative, meaning that there is an increase in the circulation of uncertainty-, risk-, and crisis-based models in attempts to make sense of where the world is heading. While visions of reproductive justice, successful ageing, care for the chronically and acutely ill, and ecological sustainability are in a state of flux, historical continuities are apparent as well. Biopolitical discussions revolve around questions such as, how should the vitality of populations be governed? Who should be allowed to reproduce? Is ageing an opportunity or a loss? What role does ‘nature’ play in furthering human wellbeing? We invite papers that examine how knowledge about demographic, ecological and economic futures are shaped by and/or escape notions of crisis. We especially welcome contributions from different parts of the world that examine concerns around falling fertility rates, ageing populations and the earth’s declining biocapacity.
Keywords: reproduction; ageing; population; ecology; futures
Ayo Wahlberg
Professor MSO
Department of Anthropology
University of Copenhagen
Øster Farimagsgade 5
1353 Copenhagen K
Denmark
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Latest books: Good Quality – the Routinization of Sperm Banking in China<https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520297784>,
Selective Reproduction in the 21st Century<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-58220-7>
Latest VITAL publications: ”Living with/out Dementia in Contemporary South Korea”<https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maq.12532>,
”Noise as dysappearance: Attuning to a life with type 1 diabetes”<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1357034X19861671>, ”The Vitality of Disease”<https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-52879-7_31>
”The ‘disabilitization’ of medicine: the emergence of Quality of Life as a space to interrogate the medical model”<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0952695119850716>,
”Chronic Paradoxes: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Family Perspectives on Living With Congenital Heart Defects”<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1049732319869909>
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