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Sophie A. Lewis deposited Enjoy It While It Lasts: From Sterility Apocalypses to Non-Nihilistic Non-Reproduction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
In this essay, I discuss salient themes of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). I hold that The Child To Come’s main thrust is this: ‘The issue is not that there is no future but rather that there is no sure way of orienting toward that future, either to save it or to survive it’. The chall…[Read more]
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reproutopia's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
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Derek Johnston's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
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reproutopia's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
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reproutopia's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
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Sophie Lewis deposited Gestational Labors: Care Politics and Surrogates’ Struggle on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
In this chapter, Sophie Lewis discusses the burgeoning industry of commercial surrogate gestation, with reference to Baby Gammy. Lewis shows that we are reluctant to countenance unity between the politics of surrogates and other, paid or unpaid, reproducers. Contesting this tendency makes it possible to theorize surrogacy politics as continuous…[Read more]
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Imogen Wegman's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
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Sophie Lewis deposited less ‘population’ talk, more kin-making: on Manchester’s B!RTH festival on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
Reflections on the B!RTH festival at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre (19th-22nd October 2016).
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reproutopia's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
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Derek Johnston's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
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Carl Gelderloos's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Imogen Wegman's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Lauren Coats started the topic GS Travel Writing: CFP MLA 2019: Commemorating Travel in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe CFP for this forum’s 2019 MLA panel is out. Please consider submitting:
*Commemorating Travel*
The circulations, aesthetics, politics of material artefacts of travel and travel writing throughout history: books and blogs, photos and Facebook, Tshirts and mementos. 250-word abstracts, cv by 12 March 2018; Lauren Coats (lac@lsu.edu). -
Jason W. Moore deposited World Accumulation and Planetary Life, or, Why Capitalism Will Not Survive Until the ‘Last Tree is Cut in the group
World-Ecology Research Network on Humanities Commons 8 years agoHow does capitalism work through the web of life?
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Jason W. Moore deposited World Accumulation and Planetary Life, or, Why Capitalism Will Not Survive Until the ‘Last Tree is Cut on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
How does capitalism work through the web of life?
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Sophie Lewis deposited International Solidarity in reproductive justice: surrogacy and gender-inclusive polymaternalism in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoReproductive justice and gestational surrogacy are often implicitly treated as antonyms. Yet the former represents a theoretic approach that enables the long and racialised history of surrogacy (far from a new or ‘exceptional’ practice) to be appreciated as part of a struggle for ‘radical kinship’ and gender-inclusive polymaternalism. Recasti…[Read more]
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Sophie Lewis deposited International Solidarity in reproductive justice: surrogacy and gender-inclusive polymaternalism in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoReproductive justice and gestational surrogacy are often implicitly treated as antonyms. Yet the former represents a theoretic approach that enables the long and racialised history of surrogacy (far from a new or ‘exceptional’ practice) to be appreciated as part of a struggle for ‘radical kinship’ and gender-inclusive polymaternalism. Recasti…[Read more]
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Sophie Lewis deposited Defending Intimacy against What? Limits of Antisurrogacy Feminisms in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoAs surrogacy services expand globally, more and more nations are moving to ban the practice. Calls for its abolition couched in feminist terms returned to prominence in international public life in 2012. The resurgence follows a lapse since the heyday of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering…[Read more]
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Sophie Lewis deposited Defending Intimacy against What? Limits of Antisurrogacy Feminisms in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoAs surrogacy services expand globally, more and more nations are moving to ban the practice. Calls for its abolition couched in feminist terms returned to prominence in international public life in 2012. The resurgence follows a lapse since the heyday of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering…[Read more]
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reproutopia's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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