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Birthing across borders: ‘Contracting’ reproductive geographies
Dialogues in Human Geography ( IF 27.5 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 , DOI: 10.1177/2043820620965825
Jen Bagelman 1 , Josephine Gitome 2
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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.



中文翻译:

跨境出生:“缩小”生殖地理

在全球流离失所加剧的背景下,跨国界出生的经历已成为许多人的现实。我们通过无数的媒体照片捕捉了这些现实的不完整的瞥见,这些照片是在穿越海洋或被金属紧急毯子悬挂的小艇中的孕妇尸体。尽管它们的出生率很高,但有关生育地理学的奖学金并未充分说明这些生育经历。在本文中,我们认为这种相对缺席并非偶然,而是反映了更深的地理偏见。本文旨在解决这一差距,并具有三个主要目标:第一,对异质生殖生活,尤其是与流离失所和不稳定的公民身份有关的问题,有更深入的了解。第二,提供新的参与性和创造性方法,以了解在紧急但长期暴力的情况下的这些生殖生活。第三,发展一种“收缩”的概念性语言,以帮助解决跨不同地区的某些不平等现象以及动员和团结。最后,在提出流离失所的问题时,本文使人们更加放心了繁殖的地缘政治,以及如何在卡兹称为“日常生活中杂乱无章的肉体”的情况下,如何经常体验和抵制生物政治治理,而这通常是在不透明的门廊空间中进行的。

更新日期:2021-01-14
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