The Multiple Lives of Affect: A Case Study of Commercial Surrogacy

Holzberg, Billy

doi:10.1177/1357034x18799177

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“…While being happy with making others happy may be gendered female, being happy with being a progenitor of another woman’s children may be a kind of queering of affect (Ahmed in Almeling, 2011; Holzberg, 2018). Concommitantly, this kind of gendered queer romance of making another woman happy is another element in which she makes herself medically compliant.…”

Section: Socio-technical Becomingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Thompson (2011) has argued in this journal in relation to 'medical migrations', transnational reproduction is 'enabled by discourses and practices that have powerful affective dynamics' (p. 207). Acknowledging multiple ways of conceptualising affect, with different political 'grammars' or outcomes (Holzberg, 2018), the accounts of women we interviewed lead us to conceptualise it through a view of the operationalisation of the affect of a heteronormative romance that produces women's extractability in the global chains of reproductive commodification (Vertommen et al, 2022b) through a narrowly proscribed heteronormative nuclear family, which the donors themselves may or may not also have. 11 One of the egg providers, Alina (29, Romania, one donation), recalled a radio advert thus:…”

Section: Socio-technical Becomingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With over 15 million babies born in Europe alone from assisted reproduction (Ferraretti et al, 2017), the significance of these reproductive practices for understandings of 'the body' cannot be underestimated and have been studied by many (Almeling, 2011;Holzberg, 2018;Perler and Schurr, 2021;Thompson, 2005). Egg donation now comprises an industry of billions of pounds annually (Nahman, 2016) with 73,927 cycles performed in Europe in 2016 Consortium (EIM) et al, 2017.…”

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Redefining Bioavailability through Migrant Egg Donors in Spain

Nahman

Weis

2023

Body & Society

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This article utilises feminist technoscience studies’ notions of bodily ‘materialisation’ and ‘ontological choreographies’, offering a cyborg feminist account of ‘bioavailability’ as embodied becomings, rather than a fixed ontological state of being. Drawn from 2 years’ ethnographic study in in vitro fertilisation clinics in Spain with migrant women who provided eggs to the cross-border in vitro fertilisation industry, this work explores how global understandings of race and inequalities, clinical practices and women’s own emotional and physical labours collectively produce bioavailability. Through examples from observations and interviews in in vitro fertilisation clinics, we examined women’s embodied stories to understand the ways in which bioavailability becomes. The article demonstrates a novel way in which to think about ‘bioavailability’, a concept which has already been of enormous use to the social sciences since its introduction by Lawrence Cohen. We examine recent configurations of bodily extraction in the reproduction–migration nexus that help us rethink the concept of bioavailability.

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Section: Socio-technical Becomingsmentioning

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Section: Socio-technical Becomingsmentioning

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Redefining Bioavailability through Migrant Egg Donors in Spain

Nahman

Weis

2023

Body & Society

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“…в жизни орга низации и его связи с возможностями функционирования в условиях изменений. На основе анализа кейса конкретного предприятия автор делает вывод о свя зи хорошего самочувствия и производительности как факторов формирования позитивного аффективного труда и соответствующей эмоциональной атмосфе ры в организации, обеспечивающих устойчивость, столь необходимую, чтобы [Holzberg, 2018]. В контексте наших задач заслуживает внимания работа группы австралийских авторов, посвященная анализу процессов конструирования городского простран ства.…”

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Affective power of vandalism: youth vandal practices within the concept of affective labor

Simonova¹

2019

monitoring of public opinion

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The purpose of the article is an adaptation of the affective labor concept as a method for analyzing vandalism among young people. The article examines youth vandalism as a form of affective labor and identifies two types of effects. The first type deals with the experiences of the vandals themselves which cause the new subjectivity and collectivity; the second type refers to the effects experienced by the users of vandal-altered spaces: they begin to feel differently because the damage can seriously change the status, value, user qualities of the urban environment and the emotions it induces on inhabitants. The paper analyzes youth vandalism as a strategy which not only transforms the urban space visually (physically) but also consciously constructs the affects transforming the subjectivity of young people, social positions and community forms of both the vandals themselves and the users of the city. This approach, reflecting the strategic nature of the young people’s vandal activity, shows that vandal practice should be understood as the practice of space occupation, its appropriation, its de- and reconstruction and should be based on social topology and general ideas of actor-network theory. The socio-philosophical conclusions in the paper are illustrated by the results of interviews involving 17 participants from 7 youth communities conducted in summer and autumn 2017 in Yekaterinburg. The photographs of the damaged urban spaces in various city districts were also taken; the data were mapped, and the photo database was marked according to geographical location and types of damaged buildings. This helped to draw certain conclusions about the youth vandalism phenomenon. The article outlines the prospects for the use of the proposed methodology in the analysis of vandal damage and in urban vandalism prevention activities. Acknowledgement. The research is funded by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 17-18-01278).

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Filippello

Parkins

2023

Fashion and Feeling

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The Multiple Lives of Affect: A Case Study of Commercial Surrogacy

Cited by 6 publications

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Redefining Bioavailability through Migrant Egg Donors in Spain

Redefining Bioavailability through Migrant Egg Donors in Spain

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