期刊
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE
卷 35, 期 2, 页码 241-262出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0263775816638851
关键词
Whiteness; eugenics; bioeconomy; biopolitics; assisted reproductive technologies; surrogacy; Mexico
资金
- Society in Science-The Branco Weiss Fellowship
Reproduction has been the privileged site of post-colonial eugenic politics through which the future national body is regulated in racial terms. Nikolas Rose argues that new forms of liberal eugenics have replaced traditional state biopolitics. In the current bioeconomy, it is no longer the state but active consumers that make (racialized) reproductive choices. The market of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in Mexico serves as an empirical case to argue that the liberal eugenics practiced in this market recasts rather than replaces traditional state biopolitics. This becomes evident in (1) the racialized access to surrogacy programs in Mexico and (2) in giving higher value to white sex cells, while (3) devaluing the genetic traits of non-white women through the selection and classification processes of reproductive laborers. Analyzing the transnational geographies of surrogacy markets in Mexico, the article investigates how future bodies are whitened through biomedical practices and consumer choices that are shaped by and simultaneously reinforce (post-) colonial imaginaries of white desirability.
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