Call for Papers and Panels
REPRODUCTIVE FUTURES: Emergent injustices, hopes and paradoxes
An international conference
Venue: Hotel Scandic Rosendahl, Tampere, Finland
June 15-17, 2022
Decreasing fertility rates and delayed family formation have raised concern
across the world. Meanwhile, human population growth is regarded a problem for
global ecological sustainability. This paradox has instigated discussions
about future population control, family relations, and reproductive and
environmental justice. For example, biodiversity, complex ecologies and good
life for not just humans but also more-than-humans are receiving growing
attention in research, policymaking, design and art. At the same time,
existing and emerging reproductive technologies, together with the increasing
commercialization of care and health data, are reshaping family- and
kin-making landscapes. Furthermore, womens and gender, sexual and ethnic
minorities rights to sexual and reproductive health have been re-politicized
in many national contexts.
This international conference aims to engage, explore and unpack the plurality
of relationships between reproductive practices, population and ecological
futures. We welcome empirical, theoretical, and methodological contributions
from various disciplinary backgrounds, including social, human, and
environmental sciences as well as design and art research.
We invite submissions for papers (abstracts max. 250 words) and panels (panel
theme description max. 150 words + abstract and speaker details for each
presentation in the panel). Throughout the conference, we will be running
parallel sessions. Please indicate in the submission system, which of the
following conference questions your paper or closed panel addresses (up to 3)
when submitting your abstract:
-
What future imaginaries of relationality are thinkable and possible in
practices of reproduction, in the historical contexts of climate change,
(bio)capitalism and late modernity?
-
How are norms and conceptions of reproduction and kinship resisted to
achieve reproductive justice, environmental justice and queer justice?
-
How are global inequalities and colonial legacies of gender, race and
economy reproduced in attempts to have children, make kin, and sustain family
relationships?
-
How do people rethink norms of relatedness, sexuality, family and
kinship in the everyday, and how are these recognized in policy making and
social services?
-
What kind of labour goes into maintaining, altering and profiting from
transnational markets and bioeconomies of reproductive industry and
pharmaceutical enterprise?
-
How are reproductive futures constituted in practices, policies and
technologies of reproduction concerning nonhumans, such as farmed and wild
animals or biodiversity-related seed banking?
-
How are toxic exposures, biodiversity loss and climate crisis
exacerbating the hierarchies that support some families and not others?
- Other question(s) relevant to our understandings of reproductive
futures
The Call for Papers and Panels is now open and will close on 15 December
2021.
Please submit your abstract here:
https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/reprofutures2022_cfp. You can also submit via our
conference website: https://events.tuni.fi/reprofutures2022/call-for-papers/.
You will be notified of the outcome of the selection process by 15 January
2022.
For the tentative program including keynotes and practical information, visit
the conference site: https://events.tuni.fi/reprofutures2022/
We look forward to your participation!
The conference is organized by Reproductive Futures project
(https://reprofutures.fi/about/) and funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation
and the Academy of Finland. The project is coordinated by Tampere University.
Follow us: @reprofutures
Conference hashtag: #reprofutures2022
Mianna Meskus, PhD
Associate Professor
Sociology
Tampere University
mianna.meskus@tuni.fi
https://miannameskus.net
@mianna_meskus
Author of Craft in Biomedical Research: The iPS Cell Technology and the Future
of Stem Cell Science , Palgrave Macmillan (2018):
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137475527
Speculative feminism and the shifting frontiers of bioscience: Envisioning
reproductive futures with synthetic gametes through the ethnographic method,
Feminist Theory (2021): https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001211030174
Embodied material encounters and the ambiguous promise of biomedical futures:
The case of biologically derived medicines, New Genetics and Society (2020),
co-authored with Venla Oikkonen:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14636778.2020.1778459
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