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Kalindi Vora
Researcher at University of California, San Diego
Publications - 20
Citations - 516
Kalindi Vora is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Posthuman & Service (business). The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 15 publications receiving 432 citations. Previous affiliations of Kalindi Vora include University of California, Berkeley & University of California, Davis.
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Indian transnational surrogacy and the commodification of vital energy
TL;DR: The authors argue that care and nurture in transnational Indian surrogacy invest human vital energy as a form of value directly into other human beings, through the biological and affective labor involved in surrogate work, thereby supporting the lives of those individuals, families and societies that consume this energy.
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Potential, Risk, and Return in Transnational Indian Gestational Surrogacy
TL;DR: In this article, a transnational surrogacy clinic in India and analysis of assisted reproductive technology (ART) legislation under consideration in the Indian parliament is examined, where the meaning that participants assign to bodies and social relationships mediated by bodies becomes destabilized in a way that allows some surrogates to imagine and work toward a connection to commissioning parents.
Surrogate Humanity: Posthuman Networks and the (Racialized) Obsolescence of Labor
Neda Atanasoski,Kalindi Vora +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a reading of Sylvia Wynter's theorization of modern man as fundamentally constructed through racial-scientific notions of the biological and economic, and argue that human racialized and gendered labor underwrites techno-utopic fantasies.