Working Session: Being and Belonging: Technologies of Reproduction
Organizer: Jenny Munro
In 2020, the informal session “Stratified Reproduction in a Global Oceania” discussed technologies, inequalities, emotions and ecologies of reproduction in Oceania. Building on that, this session hones in on 'reproductive citizenship' (what forms, politics, and practices of being and belonging are promoted, eschewed, denied) and 'technologies of reproduction' (biomedical, social, governmental). Key questions we have are: Do practices and values around reproduction (sexuality, fertility, pregnancy, birth, childrearing) in Oceania tend to conform to expectations or disrupt them? What are the expectations and disruptions, whose values or knowledge do they represent, and how do they work in practice? What are the technologies that facilitate or deny particular choices, strategies and experiences? Who controls them, seeks them, and refuses them?
For more information please contact Jenny Munro, University of Queensland, at <jenny.munro@uq.edu.au>