Birthing across borders: 'Contracting' reproductive geographies
Birthing across borders: 'Contracting' reproductive geographies
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DOI：
10.1177/2043820620965825
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发表时间：
2020-11-24
影响因子：
27.5
通讯作者：
Gitome, Josephine
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作者：
Bagelman, Jen;Gitome, Josephine
在全球流离失所加剧的背景下，跨境分娩的经历对许多人来说正在成为现实。我们通过无数的媒体快照捕捉到这些现实的不完整的一瞥，这些照片是在横渡海洋的橡皮艇上或用金属急救毯吊着的怀孕尸体。尽管它们普遍存在，但这些分娩经历在生殖地理学的研究中并没有得到充分的解释。在这篇文章中，我们认为，这种相对缺席不是一个不幸，而是反映了更深层次的地理偏见。本文试图解决这一差距，并有三个主要目标：第一，提供一个更深入的了解异质生殖生活，特别是因为它们涉及到流离失所和不稳定的公民身份的问题。第二，提供新的参与性和创造性的方法，在严重但也是长期的暴力背景下理解这些生殖生活。第三，发展一种“收缩”的概念语言，以帮助解决一些不平等问题，以及不同地区的流动性和团结性。最后，突出流离失所的问题，这篇文章带来了尖锐的救济地缘政治的生殖和生物政治治理是如何通过卡茨所谓的“日常生活中的混乱的肉的东西”在太经常无形的阈空间都经历和抵制。
Within a context of intensifying global displacement, the experience of birthing across borders is becoming a reality for many. We catch incomplete glimpses of these realities through countless media snapshots of pregnant bodies in dinghies crossing seas or slung with metallic emergency-blankets. Despite their prevalence, these birthing experiences have not been adequately accounted for in the scholarship on reproductive geographies. In this article, we argue that this relative absence is not a mishap but reflects a deeper geographical bias. The present article seeks to address this gap and has three main aims: first, to provide a deeper understanding of heterogenous reproductive lives, especially as they relate to questions of displacement and precarious citizenship. Second, to offer new participatory and creative methods for understanding these reproductive lives in contexts of acute but also protracted violence. Third, to develop a conceptual language of 'contraction' to help grapple with some of the inequities but also mobilities and solidarities across diverse geographies. Finally, foregrounding questions of displacement, this article brings into sharp relief the geopolitics of reproduction and how biopolitical governance is being both experienced and resisted through what Katz calls the 'messy fleshy stuff of everyday life' in too-often invisibilised liminal spaces.