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The reproduction of reproduction: theorizing reproductive (im)mobilities

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Through a reading of the articles gathered in this special issue, this commentary seeks to assess how critical research on reproductive processes, spatialities, temporalities, and assemblages can push mobilities theory towards rethinking the politics of (im)mobilities, which can also give us a new lens on the reproduction of reproduction. It begins with questions of scale, and the power relations involved in the heterogeneous mobile embodiments and bodily entanglements of reproduction, including mobilities involved in fertility, assisted conception, surrogacy, abortion, egg freezing, or traveling to give birth. It then draws on process theories and relational ontologies within mobilities theory to think about multiple kinds of becoming as crucial to temporal processes of reproduction, involving both molar and molecular politics. Lastly, it elucidates the kinopolitics of reproduction and broadens the field of critical mobility studies to better take into account the material assemblages and affective entanglements of reproductive politics.

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  • Mimi Sheller, 2020. "The reproduction of reproduction: theorizing reproductive (im)mobilities," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(2), pages 188-195, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:15:y:2020:i:2:p:188-195
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1730608
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    1. W. Willems & A. Heltzel & J. Nabuurs & J. Broerse & F. Kupper, 2023. "Welcome to the fertility clinic of the future! Using speculative design to explore the moral landscape of reproductive technologies," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-12, December.

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