Liv og død

Abstract

Det te nummer handler om liv og død. Vi stiller skarpt på livet, men inddrager også døden som en uomgaengelig dimension af livet og som en, der er underteoretiseret i kønsforskningen. Vi diskuterer derfor ikke blot livets politik (Rose 2006) men også nekropolitik (Mbembe 2003). Danske kønsforskere har allerede analyseret livets begyndelse, herunder hvordan celler bliver til liv på fertilitetsklinikken (Tjørnhøj-Thomsen 2002, Adrian 2006) samt hvordan fosterlivet og det kommende liv som foraeldre iscenesaettes i tredimensionelle ultralydsscanninger (Kroløkke 2011). Reproduktionsteknologierne bliver aktører i skabelsen af nyt liv og redefinerer derved vores forståelser af slaegtskab. Vi mener, at dødsteknologierne tilsvarende rejser en kaede af relevante spørgsmål, herunder hvilke liv og hvilken død er (u)vaerdig(e)? Skaeringen mellem liv og død er ikke altid ligetil. Nedfrysningsteknologier skaber eksempelvis nye forståelsesrammer for graen-3 Indledning

Making and breaking families – reading queer reproductions, stratified reproduction and reproductive justice together

“…So-called 'new' and 'critical' kinship studies (Kroløkke et al, 2017;Riggs and Peel, 2016) and studies of 'queer kinship' (Dahl and Gunnarsson Payne, 2014; also developed as a critique of capitalist heteronormative, biogenetic and Euro-centric kinship models, and affirmed queer families and their rights. Damien Riggs and Elisabeth Peel introduced the term 'Western human kinship', echoing appeals for inter-species kinship instead of deadly human exceptionalism, and a call to 'make kin, not population' (Clarke and Haraway, 2018;Haraway, 1997).…”

“…Damien Riggs and Elisabeth Peel introduced the term 'Western human kinship', echoing appeals for inter-species kinship instead of deadly human exceptionalism, and a call to 'make kin, not population' (Clarke and Haraway, 2018;Haraway, 1997). Charlotte Kroløkke et al (2017) developed the concept of (im) mobilities to analyse the unequal resources that shape the forms and possibilities of kinship (see also Thompson, 2011). Ulrika Dahl and Jenny Gunnarsson Payne (2014) argued for broad and inclusive definitions of queer kinship that move beyond same-sex rights and identitarian concerns and instead urge us to attend to the ways in which webs of people care for each other and for one another's children.…”

Troublesome reproduction: surrogacy under scrutiny

“…In the quote, the role of the consumer is one assumed and performed by individuals, who consciously act – and ‘go global’ by crossing borders – to make their dreams come true. As such, the quote echoes theorizations of reproductive or fertility tourism ( Bergmann, 2011 , Deomampo, 2013 , Kroløkke, 2016 , Speier, 2016 ), presenting the reproductive travelling involved in transnational surrogacy as short term and consumption oriented, and also somewhat carefree and effortless.…”

“…On that note, scholars have pointed to how ‘individuals, frequently from the West, take up a flexible consumer position […] to fulfil their dreams of parenthood’ ( Kroløkke et al, 2016: 7 ). In the quote, the role of the consumer is one assumed and performed by individuals, who consciously act – and ‘go global’ by crossing borders – to make their dreams come true.…”

“…The trouble with consumption in the context of reproduction is inter alia that parenthood is becoming a matter of purchasing power, as noted earlier in the quote by Strathern. In transnational surrogacy arrangements in particular, the privilege, mobility and emotionality of the Western desiring-to-be parents ( Gondouin, 2014 , Kroløkke et al, 2016 , Kroløkke and Madsen, 2014 ) stand up in sharp contrast to the often poor(er), Non-Western women assisting the parents ( DasGupta and Dasgupta, 2014a , Deomampo, 2013 , Pande, 2011 , Rudrappa and Collins, 2015 ). Thus, one of the troubles of surrogacy as a way of making parents is that it reiterates patterns of ‘stratified reproduction’ (cf.…”