New Publication: "After Roe" - A Collection of 19 Essays from Anthropologists on Abortion Politics10/3/2022
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For the musically inclined, there's an accompanying PLAYLIST to listen to while perusing the special issue. So fun!   We're excited to kickstart our winter writing seminar with this powerful group. This project brings feminist scholars with wide-ranging expertise to collaboratively theorize across national cases toward an analysis of reproductive politics in expressions of what we have been calling “reproductive righteousness.” This seminar allows us to test how our hypothesis about the centrality of reproductive politics within right-wing movements manifests in particular examples of moral border-making, familiar dogmas, redemptive orders, etcetera. Rather than birds-eye-view analyses of what’s happening in a given national context, we are keen to examine particular and localized ways reproduction is centered in right-wing nationalism, e.g., in political rhetoric of particular leaders, political imagery, cultural narratives, social movement strategies, law and policies, among others. The details, we believe, will provide the bases for our co-thinking and co-theorizing. Thus, we hope in our work together to consider the particularities and similarities, across diverse regions, towards a coherent theorization of reproductive politics in right-wing extremism today.
Following our virtual keynote event launching The Reproductive Righteousness Project, organizers of the project hosted a symposium at which over a dozen feminist scholars presented papers on right-wing movements around the world. Check out the amazing lineup of presenters and discussants.
The Reproductive Righteousness Project is a new initiative launched to explore the ways in which families, fertility, and reproduction have become increasingly important discursive moral devices through which right-wing populist leaders invoke the threat of national, social, and cultural decline. Our global feminist collaboration examines the elemental role of reproductive politics in the ascension of illiberal movements around the world. If you missed the virtual international feminist symposium on "Reproductive Righteousness and the Alt-Right State," you can watch it in full here. This project is co-led by me, Lea Taragin-Zeller, and Sarah Franklin.  It was a treat to share anthropological insights on embryo disposition to clinicians at OHSU specializing in fertility medicine and mental health. Thank you for your work and chance to engage with practitioners! 
After delivering a talk in this seminar series last September, I had a conversation with the seminar's co-organizer, Johanna Schoen, which became a podcast! To hear us discuss the politics and practices concerning frozen human embryo left over from in vitro fertilization procedures in the United States, of which there are over a million and growing, as well as to hear other conversations from seminar series participants, listen on: https://rcha.rutgers.edu/current-project/podcast  |
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