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Dear All Please do consider a paper proposal for the following panel: Reproductive Futures in Maternal and Child Health (ASA2016). Date for submission 15th February 2016. University of Durham, 4-7 July 2016 Panel Organisers: Dr Lucy Lowe and Dr Ian Harper. Short Abstract Reproduction, and maternal and child health are central to social and political regimes. This panel explores the interstices of gender, medicine, commodities, and care in this arena. Long Abstract Reproductive capacities in the lives of women and their families are infused with hopes and fears for the future. Women's bodies have simultaneously always been central to regimes of social and political control. Reduction of maternal, neonatal and child morbidity and mortality, in addition to access to reproductive and sexual health services are key components of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Future projections of 2030, of the ideal world freed from unnecessary suffering suffuse these statements and engage our hopes and fears. Interfaced with the production of metrics, ideological trajectories (rights based approaches, ideal population demographics), the consequent new social forms, commodities and services, and medical interventions, the bodies and experiences of women lie at both the centre and periphery of many of these concerns. In this panel we explore these issues, and ask what anthropology has to offer the ongoing debates in these arenas of intervention? We welcome papers addressing some of the following questions: In what ways do nationalism, reproduction, and migration intersect? What is the relationship between medical technologies, reproduction, and the state? How are claims to reproductive rights situated within broader social struggles? What is the relationship between development, religion, and reproductive health? What role for men in understandings of reproductive health? For further information and to submit an abstract, click here.<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4426> Professor Ian Harper Director, Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/edcma Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * * To unsubscribe: please log on to jiscmail.ac.uk, and * * go to the 'Subscriber's corner' page. * * ***************************************************************