Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite those interested to submit an abstract for our panel
at the upcoming ASA 2025 conference taking place in Birmingham, UK on 8-11
April.
Social and biological reproduction: Entangled concepts on the move in medical
research, practice, and policy will be a panel examining the entangling of
social and biological reproduction in medical research, practice, and policy,
broadly conceived (pun intended). We invite anthropological works which
consider these relations today, especially via the social reproduction of
kinship, parenthood, or technologies of relatedness. The long abstract with
more information is provided below.
The deadline for abstracts is November 18th. Abstracts may be submitted by
following this link: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/asa2025/panel/15950
Thanks for reading!
Sincerely,
Taylor Riley
Panel Title:
Social and biological reproduction: Entangled concepts on the move in medical
research, practice, and policy
Convenors:
Taylor Riley (University College London)
Olga Doletskaya (University College London)
Long abstract:
Biological and social reproduction are deeply entangled (Rapp and Ginsburg
1991) and reproduction is always a concept on the move. Social reproduction
has been taken up widely in feminist research as both the undervalued labour
that sustains human life and the labour that reproduces social systems and
relations. What reproduction and kinship are biologically is co-reproduced
with their legal, economic, and cultural meanings. As assisted reproductive
technologies (ARTs) become, though unevenly, more ordinary (Franklin 2013),
entwined concepts of social and biological reproduction continue to travel.
In their close attention to human experiences and relations, anthropological
approaches, such as bioethnography (Roberts and Sanz 2017), are well-suited to
trace these travels today. Population studies such as birth cohorts are
invested in the business of biological reproduction alongside the social
reproduction of participation that keeps studies alive. The proliferation of
ARTs like in vitro gametogenesis will necessitate socially reproduced changes
to concepts of relatedness. Reproductive justice is implicated in the above
and other exampleshow do these social reproductions deny or grant access to
personhood or care, especially for those who are marginalized? Can kinship be
post-genomic in these contexts, or only elsewhere?
We invite works using ethnographic methods to discuss biological and social
reproduction with reference to biomedical discourses and/or institutions,
health policies, population research, and/or the worlds of science and
medicine, broadly defined. Papers could e.g. focus on:
Studies of conception/birth, maternal/infant health, families, and/or
parenting
Genetic or epigenetic research and/or policies
Reproductive health research and/or policies
ARTs
Medicalized fertility and/or infertility
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