Description |
The project asks how the innovation and spread of assisted reproductive technologies has created a transnational market of reproductive materials (ova, sperm, embryos) and reproductive services such as artificial insemination, in-vitro-fertilization and surrogacy. To understand how these markets are made, maintained and extended within the Global South, the project follows the transnational circulation and traveling of bodies, reproductive materials, technologies, knowledge, and socio-technical devices that constitute and transnationalize this market. On the conceptual side, the project integrates feminist and postcolonial Science and Technology Studies into geographies of marketization, making latter more attentive to the way bodies, gender and technology intersect in markets in the Global South. On the empirical side, it develops a better understanding how ART markets are made and expand in the Global South and how this spread affects the bodies of women and men in the Global South. The empirical results of the project inform (inter-)national debates on the regulations of these transnational markets. |
Publications |
Komposch, Nora; Schurr, Carolin (2020). A portrait of assisted reproduction in Mexico: scientific, political, and cultural interactions. New genetics and society, 40(2), S. 240-241. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/14636778.2020.1775564
Perler, Laura; Schurr, Carolin (2020). Intimate Lives in the Global Bioeconomy: Reproductive Biographies of Mexican Egg Donors. Body & society, 27(3), S. 3-27. SAGE Publications 10.1177/1357034X20936326
Schurr, Carolin; Militz, Elisabeth (2020). Reproductive rights. In: Kobayashi, Audrey (Hg.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (S. 435-442). Elsevier 10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10234-3
Schurr, Carolin (2018). Multiple mobilities in Mexico’s fertility industry. Mobilities, 14(1), S. 103-119. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 10.1080/17450101.2019.1522881
Perler, Laura; Schurr, Carolin (2019). Kinderwunschklinik. In: Hasse, Jürgen; Schreiber, Verena (Hg.) Räume der Kindheit. Ein Glossar (S. 173-178). Bielefeld: transcript 10.7892/boris.131247
Schurr, Carolin (2018). The baby business booms: Economic geographies of assisted reproduction. Geography compass, 12(8), S. 1-15. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1111/gec3.12395
Schurr, Carolin; Militz, Elisabeth (2018). The affective economy of transnational surrogacy. Environment and planning. A, Economy and space, 50(8), S. 1626-1645. Sage 10.1177/0308518X18769652
Müller, Martin; Schurr, Carolin (2016). Assemblage thinking and actor-network theory: conjunctions, disjunctions, cross-fertilisations. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41(3), S. 217-229. Wiley 10.1111/tran.12117
Schurr, Carolin (2017). From biopolitics to bioeconomies: The ART of (re-)producing white futures in Mexico's surrogacy market. Environment and planning. D, Society and space, 35(2), S. 241-262. Sage 10.1177/0263775816638851
Schurr, Carolin; Abdo, Katharina (2016). Rethinking the place of emotions in the field through social laboratories. Gender, Place and Culture, 23(1), S. 120-133. Routledge 10.1080/0966369X.2014.970138
Schurr, Carolin; Friedrich, Bettina (2015). Serving the transnational surrogacy market as a development strategy? In: Coles, Anne; Grey, Leslie; Momsen, Janet (Hg.) The Routledge handbook of gender and development. Routledge handbooks (S. 236-243). London u.a.: Routledge (link)
Schurr, Carolin; Perler, Laura (17 Dezember 2015). ‘Trafficked’ into a better future? Why Mexico needs to regulate its surrogacy industry (and not ban it). Open Democracy OpenDemocracy (link)
Schurr, Carolin; Walmsley, Heather (Mai 2014). Reproductive tourism booms on Mexico’s Mayan Riviera. International Medical Travel Journal (link) |