This commentary responds to Bagelman and Gitome’s article, ‘Birthing Across Borders: “Contracting” Reproductive Geographies’, in the context of the growing attention paid to an increasingly diverse set of work on ‘reproductive geographies’. Their call for more South-South stories of birth, and of birth in liminal places, resonates with the growing body of literature exploring dimensions of abortion, fertility, reproductive technology, childbirth, and miscarriage by geographers. Their development of the concept of ‘contraction’ from the collection of accounts of birth in the Dadaab camp illustrates the generative potential of theorising with and from the bodily sensations of labour. The commentary concludes with a discussion of the concept of ‘dilation’ by political theorist Jane Bennett, who in seeking a new conceptual language for affective encounter also draws on the affirmative potential of poetic expression.

这篇评论是对 Bagelman 和 Gitome 的文章“跨界生育：“承包”生殖地理”的回应，因为人们越来越关注“生殖地理”的日益多样化的工作。他们呼吁更多关于出生的南南故事，以及在阈限地方出生的故事，这与地理学家探索堕胎、生育、生殖技术、分娩和流产等维度的越来越多的文献产生共鸣。他们从达达布营地的出生记录收集中发展出“收缩”的概念，这说明了用劳动的身体感觉和从劳动的身体感觉进行理论化的生成潜力。评论以政治理论家简·贝内特 (Jane Bennett) 对“扩张”概念的讨论结束，