Since the early 2000s, the commercialization of reproductive technologies has expanded rapidly on a global scale. The current phase of the reproductive economy is characterized by intensified processes of financialization and an increasingly dense global network of transnational actors, including fertility clinics, large corporations, brokers, insurance companies, intended parents, egg donors, gamete banks, surrogates, and legal intermediaries.
Nächstes Datum:
| Freie Universität Berlin, Seminarzentrum; Berlin
| Workshop
Dynamics of the Reproductive Economy: Propertisation and the Reorganization of Human Fertility
Dynamics of the Reproductive Economy: Propertisation and the Reorganization of Human Fertility
At the same time, the processes of neoliberal globalization that have shaped the reproductive economy over the past decades are increasingly challenged by geopolitical crises, disruptions, and the resulting need to reorganize supply chains. Meanwhile, pronatalist and neo-eugenic population politics are on the rise and partly overlap with future scenarios promoted by Big Tech. In addition, a growing number of companies offer fertility benefits to employees, further stimulating the expansion of reproductive economies. Against this backdrop, we aim to analyze how various forms of appropriation and doing property contribute to the propertization of human fertility and the ways in which the global reproductive economy is contested.
Invited speakers: Kathrin Braun (Hannover), Jo Eckert (Berlin), Holly Isard (London), Anika König (Berlin), Tessa Moll (Cape Town), Amrita Pande (Cape Town), Lucy van de Wiel (London), Polina Vlasenko (London), Hannah Vögele (Berlin), Alys Weinbaum (Seattle)
Organized by: Stefanie Graefe, Lisa-Marie Hase, Susanne Lettow, Abibi Stewart