Closed Panel at 4S Sydney - Transgressive Markets in Assisted Reproduction: Queering family construction in the 21st century. Bronwyn Parry

[Vincenzo Pavone]

Estimadxs,

Professor Parry is recruiting papers proposals for a possible closed panel on Transgressive Markets in Assisted Reproduction: Queering family construction in the 21^st century., 

If you think you have work to present that fits with this panel (description is below), please get in contact with her between today and tomorrow. This is her email:

"Parry, Bronwyn" <bronwy...@kcl.ac.uk>

Un abrazo

Vincenzo 

PANEL INFO:

Bronwyn Parry, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London.

Rakhi Ghoshal, Auro University School of Law, Surat, India.

 

Transgressive Markets in Assisted Reproduction: Queering family construction in the 21^st century.

The mobilisation of assisted reproduction as a set of diverse practices is quintessentially trans in both construct and operation. The vital resources that constitute the raw materials of this economy are now able to traverse time and space with relative ease by virtue of the emergence of new technologies such as sperm and egg freezing and uterine transplantation; whilst donors and recipients together remake historical conceptions of familial relations by queering both their composition and social organisation. The resulting assemblages are inherently transgressive in nature finding expression in new forms of distributed kinship that have their roots in a variety of localities and cultural contexts and which are bought into being through regulatory protocols that reach across existing borders and legal jurisdictions. Contributors to this panel investigate through original conceptual and empirical research how advanced markets in assisted reproduction disrupt or unsettle existing conceptions of how families should or could be constituted and explore how these new family forms are realised through amalgamations of technologies; bodily and affective labour, corporate strategizing and political expediency. Taking xxxx  xxxx and xxxx as our point of departure we together unpack the key controversies that currently attend the fundamental revisions of the concept and practice of family life that these new technologies both create and demand.