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Gendered Geographies of Reproductive Tourism
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This article explored the intersections of power within transnational surrogacy in India, using the lens of geography to examine surrogate women's and commissioning parents' experiences and perceptions of space and mobility.Abstract:
This article explores the intersections of power within transnational surrogacy in India, using the lens of geography to examine surrogate women’s and commissioning parents’ experiences and perceptions of space and mobility. The author analyzes ethnographic data within a geographical framework to examine how actors embody and experience power relations through space and movement, revealing how power is not simply about who moves and who doesn’t. Rather, in recognizing the specificity of the Indian context, and how different actors inhabit and move through distinct spaces, a geographical lens reveals the shifting complexity of structures of agency and power. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in India, the author traces how both surrogate mothers and commissioning parents experience moments of mobility and movement punctuated by intervals of immobility and stillness, in distinct ways that illuminate the power relations inherent in transnational reproduction.read more
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Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference
TL;DR: In this article, the material frames of daily life are constituted and represented through social practices, not as separate elements but in relation to each other, and they then become fundamental to the exploration of political, economic and ecological alternatives to contemporary life.
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Altruistic Agencies and Compassionate Consumers Moral Framing of Transnational Surrogacy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how surrogacy persists and thrives despite its common portrayal as the "rent-a-womb industry" and "baby factory" and found that market actors justify their pursuits through narrating moral frames of compassion and altruism that are not incidental but systematic to and constitutive of transnational surrogacy.
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Power and empowerment: How Asian solo female travellers perceive and negotiate risks
TL;DR: In this article, the lived experiences of 35 solo female travellers from 10 East and Southeast Asian countries were analysed using constructivist grounded theory, which revealed that Asian solo female travelers were concerned about gendered (e.g. sexual assault and street harassment) and racialised (i.e. discrimination and social disapproval) risks, which imply the unequal power relations underpinning the gendered and racialized tourism space.
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The baby business booms: Economic geographies of assisted reproduction
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that an analysis of the fastgrowing transnational market of assisted reproduction has much to gain from economic geographies with their interest in the making of markets across borders and feminist economic geographers' engagement with how new forms of gendered and racialized divisions of labor intersect with particular economic, cultural, political, and social contexts.
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Reducing the scale? From global images to border crossings in medical tourism
Abstract: International medical travel has increased in the last 20 years, becoming more diverse and complex, although definitions and data on its growth and structure are inadequate. Many countries, especially in the Global South, have sought to develop medical tourism for both strategic and defensive reasons. Few have been successful. Standard descriptions and images of medical tourism suggest global markets, elite patient travellers and the dominance of cosmetic surgery, alongside the privatization and corporatization of hospital chains. Most international medical travel is, however, short-distance, diasporic, across adjacent and nearby borders, and of relatively poor patients seeking cheaper, more effective or available care in appropriate cultural contexts, for straightforward procedures. Social networks, rather than the internet, shape choices and decisions on destinations. Porous international borders are crucial to medical travel and have resulted in the emergence of formal trans-border health regions in the North and spontaneous informal regions in the South, alongside some regional hubs and hierarchies. Globalization is less significant than the grassroots transnationalism of borderland health care.
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Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference
TL;DR: In this article, the material frames of daily life are constituted and represented through social practices, not as separate elements but in relation to each other, and they then become fundamental to the exploration of political, economic and ecological alternatives to contemporary life.
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